Feverish Effort to Expand Nuclear Power Poses Major Health Threat - World Business Academy

Feverish Effort to Expand Nuclear Power Poses Major Health Threat - World Business Academy

By Joseph Mangano, MPH, MBA, Executive Director Radiation and Public Health Project June 23, 2025 In the past few years, an unexpected effort to dramatically expand U.S. nuclear power – which for decades has diminished as an electricity source – has raised concerns about safety and health. During the Cold War, government leaders promoted electricity generated by nuclear power reactors as a use of the “peaceful atom.” The threat of nuclear war be…