DougM

Nuclear Power's Second Coming Will Lead to a Uranium Boom

While I generally agree with your position, I would quibble about coal plants being public enemy number one for enviro activists. They oppose nuclear plants with equal fervor. It's just that they've all come to think they won that battle for good back in the late 70s, and are now dismayed to see their own arguments about depletion and emissions coming back to bite them. Indeed, from what I can see they're pretty much opposed to everything, even nat gas (they oppose LNG projects and more domestic production in off-limits areas). Eventually the "unwashed masses" will see through their position when it becomes evident that conservation can't take us to zero, and intermittent renewables can't provide baseload or dispatchable power to the grid (not to mention needing huge amounts of land and long transmission lines through sensitive areas). Germans are already coming to grips with this reality.