I agree that nuclear energy is an important contributor to solving our energy problems (“Don’t foreclose this nuclear option,” Feb. 27).
Although nuclear power should not be exempt from the research budget cuts needed to solve our economic problems, it should be realized that such funding has been an important investment. In 1992, commercial nuclear technology exports brought in more than $1.7 billion.
The Argonne National Laboratory program you mentioned is another opportunity not only for the U.S. to give a safe product for the rest of the industrialized world.
In the necessary budget trimming to come, we should remember the substantial payback we have gotten from nuclear power and not cut so deep as to lose our technological advantages and the associated substantial future benefits.
