David Staples: Want to whip climate change? Go nuclear, says Alberta advocate

Want to whip climate change? It’s time to embrace the nuclear option, which is, in fact, nuclear power.
So argues Alberta’s most enthusiastic advocate for nuclear power, engineer Sean Wagner, who runs the Alberta Nuclear Nucleus blog to educate folks on the benefits of nuclear energy.
Alberta uses 10 to 11 gigawatts of electrical power each day. A nuclear plant will produce 0.5 to 1.3 gigawatts per day. So with about a dozen such plants we’d meet all of Alberta’s electric