A founder of Greenpeace has endorsed nuclear power generation (registration required). The China Syndrome fears of environmentalists have never come to pass. The much cited Three Mile Island failure in fact showed that U.S. reactor designs work--the radioactivity remained within the containment dome. More people die every year from mining coal than have ever died from a nuclear reactor problem.
Nuclear power is just one of a toolkit of new power generation systems, large and small, that we will see emerge over the next ten to twenty years as we begin to wean ourselves off oil. Gas at three dollars a gallon hurts too much not to take a common sense look at other power generation technologies.
This is progress, and as I have said all along, the emerging Energy Economy is going to be big.