Let's Have Some Love for Nuclear Power - WSJ.comShe would, I imagine, say this wasn't a short-term solution and would stonewall it any way she could - aided and abetted by the environuts screeching "It's gonna kill us all! 3-Mile Island! Chernobyl! Aaaahh! Run away, run away!"All over the world, nuclear power is making a comeback. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has just commissioned eight new reactors, and says there's "no upper limit" to the number Britain will build in the future. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has challenged her country's program to phase out 17 nuclear reactors by 2020, saying it will be impossible to deal with climate change without them. China and India are building nuclear power plants; France and Russia, both of whom have embraced the technology, are fiercely competing to sell them the hardware.
And this is rather odd-
FOXNews.com - Oil-Rich Emirates Pursue Nuclear Program That Could Be a 'Model' in Persian Gulf - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe NewsIt could be they're looking to protect themselves - or they could be making sure they've still got power when the world goes off the oil standard.ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — The United Arab Emirates, which sits on one-tenth of the world's oil reserves, is likely to be the first Middle Eastern country to have a nuclear energy program.
Abu Dhabi, the UAE's capital, has already appointed an ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency even before it has built a nuclear facility.The UAE lies in the heart of a region some say could be on course for a nuclear arms buildup. The Emirates is across the Persian Gulf from Iran, which is currently under investigation by the IAEA for its suspect uranium enrichment program.
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