Environmentalists Coming Around to Nuclear Power?

Heywood J. Blaume writes "In a Washington Post editorial Patrick Moore, a founder of Greenpeace, now says he was wrong about opposing nuclear power 30 years ago. In the article he addresses common myths about nuclear power, and puts forth the position that nuclear power is the only feasible, affordable power source that can solve today's growing environmental and energy policy issues. From the article: 'Thirty years on, my views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement needs to update its views, too, because nuclear energy may just be the energy source that can save our planet from another possible disaster: catastrophic climate change.'"

Comments

Wow

[RockModeNick]

and I was wrong about never trying for a first post!

born-again big business shill

[SledgeHBK]

I used to think Big Macs were the bomb until I ate a Whopper. Whopper's are much better.

Let's Ask Roland

[Ranger]

Ever since they stopped posting Roland Piquepaille stories, the quality of slashdot headlines has dropped precipitously. I was never much of a fan of Roland's. And I enjoyed the bashing, but he leveraged himself into a better website. ZDNet, I think. Much like when I read rec.art.sf.written and had a huge killfile to filter out all the Robert Jordan posts. Then they got their own rec.art.sf.written.robert-jordan-sucks-er-I-mean-i s-awesome newsgroup. Half of the traffic went away overnight. I wouldn't say rarsw got worse. nor did it get better, but I missed making fun of the robert-jordanistas and the satisfaction of watching my killfile nuke hundreds upon hundreds of wheel of time posts.

But I digress. Nuclear environmentalists? Pshaw! Never! This has my vote for the worst headline ever. There is no bottom to this place. I don't know what has happened to slashdot, but it sucketh mightily of late. Misleading headlines, incoherent blurbs, and tardy story postings. I will read about what used to be a slashdot worthy posting days before slashdot posts it.

I'll go nuclear when I can have an atomic powered helicopter. So I take it the green these nuclear environmentalists will come from another source besides plants?