Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, endorses nuclear power in a Washington Post op—ed. Not that he actually apologizes for the lost decades due to greenie scare—mongering, or accounts for the huge sums sent to the Middle East to pay for petroleum  — money that could have been spent instead domestically on nuclear reactors to generate power. Being green means never having to say you're sorry. Still, it is a notable item: What nobody noticed at the time, though, was that Three Mile Island was in fact a success story: The concrete containment structure did just what it was designed to do —— prevent radiation from escaping into the environment. And although the reactor itself was crippled, there was no injury or death among nuclear workers or nearby residents. Three Mile Island was the only serious accident in the history of nuclear energy generation in the United States, but it was enough to scare us away from further developing the...(Read Full Post)