from 'The Nation': "This much seems clear: a handful of firms might soak up huge federal
subsidies and build one or two overpriced plants. While a new
administration might tighten regulations, public safety will continue
to be menaced by problems at new as well as older plants. But there
will be no massive nuclear renaissance. Talk of such a renaissance,
however, helps keep people distracted, their minds off the real
project of developing wind, solar, geothermal and tidal kinetics to
build a green power grid."

If there were no nuclear reactors it would be much harder to justify the purchase of uranium for use in nuclear weapons..
Nuclear waste is needed for depleted Uranium munitions.
Due to their extensive use in the Middle East, the arsenal has to be restocked regularly.

Not to mention the cost of decommissioning or what to do with the waste that cannot be used for munitions.

With all the subsidies that have gone into the oil industry over the years - that have been used to "perfect" the internal combustion gasoline engine - that has been poured into the nuke industry, it seems more than irresponsible to neglect the green energy developers.

And Mr. Bush wonders why fewer and fewer young folk want to be scientists...