Duh. Nevertheless, it's good to see this article by a certified environmentalist in one of the major opinion-forming newspapers.
We need nuclear power, but nothing will be licensed or built until the trend-following sheep are persuaded that nuclear power has been approved by the opinion leaders they blindly follow. No liberal politician will climb on board until the environmental movement gives him permission.
It's only about 20 years too late. Dear Jane Fonda, who lent her image to the North Vietnamese at a key point in time, lent her image to the movement to end nuclear power plant construction. Three-Mile Island, followed up by this movie might be said to mark a decisive moment in leftist opinion manipulation:
I was in college near Philly (70 miles east) during the TMI episode. The two things I most remember in my own immediate life are: (1) we had a really hot gal living down the hall in our dorm who was from northern CA - her mother pulled her out of school and we never saw her again (waste of a good education and a great loss to our dorm); (2) I had to suppress laughter when my left-wing Poli Sci professor was absolutely red-faced furious at our college physics profs, who were telling everyone who asked (after the initial crisis had passed) that they were in no danger and that the matter was being misdescribed and misunderstood by the media, etc. How dare physicists tell the media (or poli sci profs) what they don't know about nuclear physics!!!!