Kristof: "Drop that hostility to nuclear power."

A couple of weeks ago in the New York Times, columnist Tom Friedman offered his endorsement of new nuclear build. In today's edition of the paper, columnist Nicholas Kristof offers a similar endorsement:

If there was one thing that used to be crystal clear to any environmentalist, it was that nuclear energy was the deadliest threat this planet faced. That's why Dick Gregory pledged at a huge anti-nuke demonstration in 1979 that he would eat no solid food until all nuclear plants in the U.S. were shut down.

Mr. Gregory may be getting hungry.

But it's time for the rest of us to drop that hostility to nuclear power. It's increasingly clear that the biggest environmental threat we face is actually global warming, and that leads to a corollary: nuclear energy is green.

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