Hoping Kansas will get ‘advanced’ nuclear energy? Careful what you wish for in the Age of Damocles.

Hoping Kansas will get ‘advanced’ nuclear energy? Careful what you wish for in the Age of Damocles.

A nuclear plant radiation protection sign warns members of the public away from the site. (Nuclear Regulatory Commission)Swords or ploughshares? That’s the dilemma that has plagued us since the sudden dawn of the nuclear age. Should we split atoms for peace or to rain destruction on our enemies? In the space of a single human life we’ve done both, killing hundreds of thousands in two atomic bomb attacks on Japan and then building nuclear reactor…