Welcome back to the 10 Blocks podcast. This is Brian Anderson, the editor of City Journal.

Coming up on today's show, our senior editor Steve Malanga talks to Jim Miggs, the former editor

of Popular Mechanics, about his first big essay for City Journal, The Nuclear Option.

Since the meltdown at Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011, approving new

atomic power generating stations has become almost impossible. For nearly a decade, activists

around the world have pushed not just to block new power plants, but also to decommission

existing ones as well. Today, though, as calls

for a radical green economy are mounting, a new band of supporters argues that nuclear energy

is actually our best source of clean, reliable, and yes, reasonably safe electricity. And we're delighted to have Jim talk about

that topic today. But one announcement before we get started, our parent organization, the Manhattan

Institute, is looking for nominees for its new Civil Society Awards program. History has shown

that free markets are the best way to organize economic

activity, but we also know that a healthy civil society relies on charitable giving,

volunteers, and other philanthropic enterprises. That's why the Manhattan Institute

is awarding four outstanding non-profit leaders with $25,000 prizes for their efforts

to tackle the most serious public problems of our day. If you know a non-profit organization

that's doing good work in your community, you can nominate them by visiting the Manhattan

Institute website, www.manhatanhattan-institute.org.

That's it for me. The conversation between Steve Melangess, senior editor at City Journal.

Joining me on the show today is Jim Megs. He's the former editor of popular mechanics and

co-host of the How Do We Fix It Podcast, which you can find on iTunes and wherever you get your podcast.

You can also follow him on Twitter at James B. Megs. That's M-E-I-G-S.

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