My broader point is that nuclear should be kept as part of our energy mix. It's certainly not the miracle solution, but it has its place - and it is probably a lot less bad than the solutions we will otherwise turn to almost by default: coal and gas-fired plants.

Nuclear and wind are especially complementary, and they form a much better combination to provide cheap power in the coming 20 years than anyhting else.

Of course, we need to focus on energy savings most of all, and make every effort to develop all renewable energies, but we have to be realistic and acknowledge that we will require old-style cheap base load capacity, thus some nuclear.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes