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The True Costs of Electrification: The Future of Nuclear Power After Japan / Edward Blandford, Sanford University, EU Energy Policy Blog, 4/04/2011http://www.energypolicyblog.com/2011/04/04/the-true-costs-of-electrification-the-future-of-nuclear-power-after-japan/In  2000, Neil Armstrong, on behalf of the National Academies of  Engineering, announced the 20 engineering achievements of the 20th  century that have had the greatest impact on quality of life. At the top  of the list: the electrification of the United States, which, he noted,  “changed the country’s economic development and gave rural populations  the same opportunities and amenities as people in the cities.” “If  anything shines as an example of how engineering has changed the world  during the 20th century,” he observed, “it is clearly the power that we  use in our homes and businesses”...