Yesterday’s News & Observer‘s front-page headline and photo struck a particularly alarmist take on the subject matter, it seemed to me:

Meanwhile, Triangle activists barely skipped a beat between saying We need to reduce our dependency on oil to opposing a new nuclear power plant.

Given nuclear power’s huge advantages in both efficiency and waste reduction, I cannot understand why the Left is so knee-jerk in its opposition to nuclear power ? save that it’s consistent with their opposition to economic growth.