Thanks a lot, Jane

With all the current attention being paid to energy prices and our dependence on foriegn oil, I find it weird that so little is mentioned about nuclear power. I did a little research and the best I can tell France obtained about 80% of it's energy from nuclear power. I have heard no reports of major saftey hazards or accidents involved in this production. In fact the Russian incident is the only major accident that I know of. True, we got a scare at Three Mile Island but no mass destruction.

I guess we can thank Jane Fonda for that too. The scare movie she stared in seems to have had the same effect as Rachel Carlson's book "Silent Spring" did for DDT.

Why has no one at least opened a dialog concerning expansion of nuclear power in this county. Can it be that the Hollywood defined political correctness of nuclear has muted all discussion or consideration of the subject? Maybe other considerations would make it a poor option, but I have heard no mention of it at all. I have no idea as to the cost of building a nuclear power plant relative to other sources of power. I think however, that I'm not alone in wishing
to hear the pros and cons. Maybe bloggers can help initiate some discussion about some of these issues that main stream journalism seems to avoid