For Environment's Sake, U.S. Should Go Nuclear

An editorial in yesterday's Detroit News asks this question: What would be the best solution, using today's technology, to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases and cut the consumption of fossil fuels? Their answer: "Go nuclear."

Nuclear power plants provide a clean and virtually inexhaustible source of energy. Nuclear is the only available alternative for producing mass amounts of electricity without polluting the air or water.

And yet, the United States has turned away from nuclear energy, bowing to irrational fears and the powerful environmental lobby. But it is the environmentalists who ought to be nuclear energy's biggest fans, given that nuclear is the most eco-efficient of all energy sources.

The editorial hails NuStart's selection last week of Grand Gulf Nuclear Station and Bellefonte Nuclear Plant, saying the consortium should receive "all the assistance necessary" from the federal government to apply for combined construction and operating licenses for new nuclear plants at these two sites.

The effort by NuStart should be the beginning of an urgent, national push to rush new nuclear plants into production.

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