The Environment: “All we are saying is give nukes a chance?”

Will climate change concerns turn out to be a renaissance for nuclear power? We think so–nuclear’s “new day” is beginning to accelerate piece by piece. So watch for pitched battles on this issue. Two days ago, with much fanfare and by an 11-8 vote, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee approved a bill which would require U.S. limits on greenhouse gases. See AP‘s “Senate Panel OKs Global Warming Bill“. Measures offered by a Republican senator to expand the use of nuclear power–on the argument that reactors, unlike coal-burning