Nuclear Power, Long Dormant, Undergoes a Nascent Revival ; Rising Electricity Rates and Concern about Global Warming Spur Second Look at Industry. but Waste-Disposal Problems Persist

David R. Francis writer of The Christian Science Monitor, The Christian Science Monitor

For more than a quarter century, nuclear power has been the enfant terrible of US energy policy. Sure, it's a cheap way today to generate electricity. Sure, it doesn't spew any greenhouse gases out of hour-glass stacks.

Yet there is that problem of radioactive waste, which alone has been enough to harden a generation of activists against it - and ensure that a nuclear plant hasn't been ordered in the US in 23 years.

Yet today, at the birth of a new century and new concerns about domestic energy supplies, nuclear power is getting a second look. Soaring natural gas prices, shortages of electricity, and fresh concerns about global warming are reviving …

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