It's about time

We've been needing this for years.

One of the U.K.'s top nuclear officials said today that she was told the U.S. will okay plans to build the first nuclear power plants since the accident at Three Mile Island nearly three decades ago. Lady Barbara Thomas Judge, chair of the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority, said that the chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission informed her that the NRC will approve three applications for new nuclear reactors that it's currently considering.

One of them is for the Shearon Harris plant just down the street.  Of course, it will be another three years before the paperwork necessary for the approval is even ready.  Not to mention the actual approval and building.  If it is ready before 2020 I'll be surprised.

It's also interesting to note the recurrent mentions of the Three Mile Island incident, as well as the Chernoybl accident.  And, of course, they had to mention global warming and climate change.  But, if that demagoguery is going to get us some cheaper, cleaner energy, then I am willing to put up with it for now.

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