Published: Thursday, 12 Jul 2012 | 12:18 PM ET
By: Terry Tamminen
Contributor
Until headlines last week announced the end of his marriage to Katie Holmes, it seemed there was no mission too impossible for Tom Cruise to accomplish.
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The coal fueled Fiddlers Ferry power station emits vapour into the night sky on November 16, 2009 in Warrington, United Kingdom.
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But even his cool, Burj Khalifa-climbing character in the famous film franchise might refuse the Mission-Impossible assignment facing global economies today — powering growth with nuclear energy.
The debate over nuclear has generally boiled down to the challenge of waste disposal.
Of course there is always talk of safety, but proponents quickly point to the half-century of global experience with nuclear energy and the very few, albeit disastrous, incidents of the proverbial genie escaping its’ lead-lined, super-cooled, concrete bottle.
Proponents are also quick to dismiss waste issues by pointing to new technologies that recycle much of the spent fuel.
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