Seventy-five percent of electricity from Carbon-free sources are provided by one hundred and four nuclear power plants operating in 31 states. Even so, only ten percent of the nations electric generating capacity is attributed to nuclear plants.

With the world's increasing population, affordable energy that meets the needs of rising electricity demands and the value of desalinization plants that produce clean water supplies become profoundly important factors in meeting the challenges of the future.

U.S. Independence from the Middle East as a source of energy and from fossil fuels that emit pollutants into the atmosphere depend on nuclear energy technology.

Proponents of nuclear energy have good reason to support it as the source of energy of the future. Sixteen percent of the world's electricity is produced by 400 nuclear power plants, reducing CO2 emissions by 2 billion metric tons or more per year. Nuclear power plants serve 60 million homes annually. Of all electricity sources, nuclear energy has one of the lowest impacts on the environment. A good example would be that a 1,000-megawatt nuclear power plant will produce the same amount of electricity as a wind farm that would need hundreds of square miles to operate.

Of all clean energy sources, nuclear energy is the largest, using wind and solar and hydroelectric to make up 73 percent of electricity generated. It is a low-cost and reliable source of energy that uses an enriched form of uranium for fuel. To put it into perspective, one tiny uranium pellet, the size of a pencil eraser, is equivalent to 149 gallons of oil!

Tax revenues are another boon for state and local governments, each plant generating an average of approximately $20 million.

Each year in the United States, millions of nuclear medicine imaging and procedures are performed yearly. There are close to one hundred different nuclear medicine imaging procedures in use today.

More than 25 scientific studies have found that coal burning is many times more harmful to our health. It is the source of most of our electricity even though nuclear power is safer and cleaner. One study was even sponsored by the UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) an anti-nuclear organization.

Provisional safety and security concerns are monitored by UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists)at existing power plants in the United States . The UCS analyzes the pros and cons of the proliferation of nuclear power as the answer to reducing global warming, petitions the NRC (The Nuclear Regulatory Commission) testifies at Congressional hearings and supports citizens living near nuclear plants.

The media is responsible for instilling fear of Nuclear energy in the public sector. Fear of reactor accidents and radioactive waste. This is irresponsible and misleading. Cancer-causing chemicals and radioactive wastes released in coal-burning are thousands of times more harmful. Unfortunately, it is the public who will pay the price for depending on the media. Our standard of living may be at risk when, as a result of public misinformation, electricity will be double in cost to that of Western Europe and Japan.