"From a climate perspective, there are three separate issues to understand: existing power plants, the prospect of building new power plants now, and new, yet-to-be deployed technology in development."

"The United States government was earmarking billions of dollars for a new atomic age, in part to help tame a warming global climate. But a remarkable confluence of events is bringing that to an end, capped in recent days by Toshiba’s decision to take a $6 billion loss and pull Westinghouse, its American nuclear power subsidiary, out of the construction business."

"Without active pushback from Congress and the public, the NRC’s march toward less regulation may be unstoppable."

"A film about nuclear energy, Pandora’s Promise, features five “converts” who argue that the dire threat of climate change requires humanity to embrace nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuels...The Nation’s environment correspondent, who has been covering the nuclear industry since investigating it for his book Nuclear Inc., lays out the myths the film peddles, followed by the facts about nuclear energy."

"Studies indicate even the worst possible accident at a nuclear plant is less destructive than other major industrial accidents. Nuclear waste disposal, although a continuing political problem, is not any longer a technological problem."

"There is the gravest of dangers: plutonium and enriched uranium derived from nuclear reactors contributing to the building of nuclear weapons. The technology needed to enrich uranium to commercial reactor grade can easily be scaled up to enrich uranium to weapons grade." 

"We are skeptical that many localities would volunteer to host waste facilities, particularly the permanent repository, no matter the economic benefits."