Ranger from the North

Jazz Shaw:

While it was easy to miss due to the almost complete lack of media coverage, last week the White House released a new roadmap to revive the United States nuclear power industry. This has been a neglected issue for a long time, but the proposal could go a long way towards addressing our needs in this area if properly implemented. The Washington Examiner provided a thorough rundown of the details along with the President's reasoning in wanting to take these actions. Of course, there were Democrats who immediately slammed the plan, but let's at least take a look at what’s being put on the table.

Read the whole thing. I especially appreciate this point:

And for those of you wringing your hands and preparing to quote The China Syndrome, I'll remind you of one thing. During the worst nuclear meltdown (literally) in the history of our country at Three Mile Island, the total amount of radiation released was less than you would get walking from your car to the terminal at the Denver airport on a sunny day. There have been radioactive disasters in other countries, but we don't use crappy reactor designs that lend themselves to explosions (Chernobyl) or build our plants on fault lines in areas that are regularly hit by tsunamis (Fukushima). We've been proving for decades that we can do this safely and the arguments against such progress are paper thin.