My wife and I were the last generation truly afraid of nuclear holocaust. She and I watched the Berlin wall come down and that was the begging of the end of worrying about waking up to nuclear winter. It lends a certain perspective on realizing how less massively catastrophic nuclear technology is likely to be.

Through the politics and honest debate about climate, energy, and the future I've adopted a test. I've decided that anyone serious about reducing greenhouse gases had to be a supporter or reluctant supporter of nuclear electrical generation.

I had heard that this was true, but its excellent to see Patrick Moore who co-founded Green Peace come out in the WaPo editorializing in support of Nuclear energy.

One of the things I would really like to see is that the western world gets serious around a design that is off the shelf for any country that wants it and is purchasable from a host of neutrals or variously aligned countries like Japan that will allow NATO and others to call, for example, Iran's bluff. Lets sell everyone cheap and easy nuclear power plants and keep the uranium enrichment being the Canary in the nuclear weapon coal mine.