Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us AllBy Michael ShellenbergerHarperCollins, 430 pp, $29.99“What you’re experiencing and seeing,” Jennifer Manfre, spokeswoman for Southern California Edison, told me back in 2012, “is nuclear safety in action.”At the time, engineers at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), a coastal plant located some sixty miles north of San Diego, had discovered a small leak in a steam generator tube, resulting in the release of a minute amount of radioactive gas—much smaller, Manfre explained, “than you would receive from your smoke alarm in your house for a whole year.”Yet that small leak triggered a …read more
Source:: The American Interest
