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One-time media mogul Ted Turner gave a backhanded compliment to nuclear energy last night:

The broadcast mogul Ted Turner told a group of wealthy philanthropists yesterday that the country needs to turn to nuclear power as part of a new energy plan, but that terrorists could blow up a nuclear power plant.

The multibillionaire megaphilanthropist called power plants "gigantic land mines" but said, "At the end of the day, I think it's a risk we have to accept."

As we've said he before at NEI, we beg to differ, and believe nuclear power plants are the best defended pieces of industrial infrastructure in the U.S.

Senator Schumer seems to agree with us.

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