Reply #2: What I thought was interesting about this CJR editorial was its

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harsh description of Patrick Moore as an "eco-Judas": Moore’s firm, Greenspirit Strategies, has labored for such causes as pesticides, flame retardants, and mining companies accused of fouling villages with cyanide.

I share your urgency concerning global warming, and I share your engineer's sense that nuclear is not as bad as its critics believe. But unless we replaced most of our electrical generation capacity with nuclear, nuclear will not make a real impact on the problem--and no one is talking about building more than a few dozen nuclear plants in the next 15-20 years. Indeed, I am reaching the conclusion (based on the large amount of coal plant construction and the likelihood that coal and nonconventional petroleum will be used to make liquid fuels) that we are pretty much screwed.