The bipartisan consensus that nuclear power offers a big piece of the
answer to American's energy and global warming challenges may be
sidelined.
Until this weekend, President Obama, mainstream environmental
groups and large numbers of Republicans and Democrats in Congress
agreed that nuclear power offered a steady energy source and part
of the solution to climate change, even though they disagreed on most
other aspects of energy policy creation.
President Obama is seeking tens of billions of dollars in government
insurance for new nuclear construction, and the nuclear industry in
the United States, which was all but paralyzed for decades after the
Three Mile Island accident in 1979, was poised for a comeback.
Now, all of the strides recently made are in questions as the world
watches the unfolding crisis with Japan's nuclear reactors and terror.
Sunday on FACE THE NATION, Senator Joseph Lieberman said
"I think it calls on us here in the US not to stop building nuclear
power plants but to put the brakes on right now until we understand
the ramifications of what has happened.
The president believes that meeting our energy needs means relying
on a diverse set of energy sources that includes renewables like wind
and solar, natrual gas, clean coal and nuclear power.
Three of the world's chief sources of large-scale energy production - coal,
oil and nuclear power have all experienced terrible accidents.
According to Washington, the creation of an energy policy is vexing
because it seems impossible to achieve a climate solution based on
existing technology without a significant reliance on nuclear power.
This is the United States of America - our great country - we need a
viable ENERGY POLICY!!!! Yes, go in with all of the information possible
and devise the best solution for the USA. If it is nuclear power, go with
it and view it as a great opportunity to create many, many new jobs
also. America dependence on foreign oil must end. So President Obama
has the opportunity to give us a viable ENERGY POLICY and CREATE
NEW JOBS also - it looks like a win win to me.
