"Clean" Nuclear Energy? Global Warming, Public Health, and Justice

The article talks about a new nuclear power plant in Maryland. The author agreed with Governor Martin O'Malley that current energy policy presents a huge moral challenge. The combustion of fossil fuels is measurably harming the world's climate, threatening species and low-lying island nations and facilitating the spread of diseases such as malaria into ecosystems formerly inhospitable to the carrier mosquito. The author also agreed that there is a moral imperative for something better and cleaner. Congress passed the Price-Anderson Act in 1957 which indemnifies private operators in the event of a nuclear accident. This act also limits a nuclear utility's liability to $10 billion, with the remainder of the liability borne by U.S. taxpayers.