Nuclear advocates in government and the nuclear industry are engaged in a massive, heavily financed drive to revive atomic power in the United States-with most of the mainstream media either not questioning or actually assisting in the promotion. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
Excellent journalism; well sourced and informing on a subject that should be in the forefront of everyone's thoughts,especially now that the coal gasification project has been scrapped and Wall Street has decided to withhold funding of new coal power plants. This part "As Andrew Simms of the New Economics Foundation told BBC News (11/29/05), another dirty little secret of nuclear power is that startlingly, theres only a few decades left of the proven high-grade uranium ore it needs for fuel. This has been the projection for years." could also be part of the issue associated with Iran's desire for nuclear power,e.g. competition for a diminished resource. I do wish the author
