Fighting the "Nuclear Taboo" in the Czech Republic

Here's Daniel Kaizer from Czech Business Weekly, on Czech Prime Minister's Vaclav Klaus' recent support for expanded use of nuclear energy across Europe:

[W]e can’t allow ourselves to be suspicious of nuclear energy in principle. We have to face the fact that we’re increasingly dependent on Russian gas and oil, and that with every passing year our concern with Russia’s muscle flexing on the international scene grows.

That’s why we should applaud Klaus for breaching this topic and shooting at the “consensus” made up by the half-educated chattering classes. This iconoclastic position suits him much better than interfering into executive politics. Klaus has no right to decide how big a majority a prime minister must have in Parliament; he lost his instinct for politics about 10 years ago. But he’s a good provocateur; and no sacred cow of our public debate needs to be slaughtered more urgently than the nuclear taboo.

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