Let's Bring Nuclear Technology Back Home
The high price of oil, natural gas and coal should be a wake-up call to all regions of the country that the era of boundless use of cheap fossil fuels is over — and that nuclear power will need to play a larger role in supplying electricity to homes, business and industry.
The problems nuclear power has encountered have never been technological; they have been primarily political and institutional.
The U.S. pioneered the development of nuclear energy and had the first major nuclear program. Most other leading industrial countries have continued developing their nuclear programs since the last nuclear plant order in the U.S., often using U.S. technology.
Today we have the means — and more important, the need — to bring that technology back home.
From my commentary being distributed nationally by McClatchy-Tribune News Service.