Breaking Bread with a Pro-Nuclear Blogger

It's been a busy week filled with meetings and other responsibilities that have kept me away from blogging, but I wanted to take a few moments to write about a lunch meeting that my colleague David Bradish and I had earlier today with N Nadir, the famous pro-nuclear blogger who conducts his business over at Daily Kos.

As many of our readers know, we've been pointing to Nadir's (not his real name) posts at DailyKos for some time now, at times astonished at the sort of support nuclear energy can enjoy at a traditionally progressive blog like that one.

Then again, Nadir told me he wasn't surprised, as has been seeing a movement of a number of Democrats and others of a progressive political stripe give nuclear energy a second, and enthusiastic look.

We had a very interesting lunch, and Nadir passed along some advice that I'm sure to take to heart when it comes to confronting our industry's foes. In particular, Nadir made it clear that we needed to be more, not less confrontational, and just a bit more edgy when it comes to our presentation.

Simply put, he gave us a lot to think about, and I hope we did too.

It was great to take the jump and meet Nadir face-to-face as we have with Rod Adams and John Wheeler. Here's hoping we might do it again soon with another member of the nuclear energy community online.