So I am not alone! Yes, I agree, of course we should push ahead to develop robust and less polluting technologies. It cannot come quick enough. But there is no such thing as a step function in this domain; we will not go from coal to wind, or tidal surge power overnight. Nuclear, and especially the more recent reactor technologies, will give us a long period of less polluting power (not zero pollution, no-one is claiming it will do that). As John Tjostem says, we have little time, and we have a well grounded technology that can help us alleviate the current production of greenhouse gases due to the use of hydrocarbon fuels. As China and India, Brazil, Mexico, Nigeria, Indonesia, and other populous nations begin to increase their production of coal and oil fired power, we will be faced with both rising costs of fossil fuel and huge rises in greenhouse gases. While I would agree that it is not totally proven that power generation is responsible for the rise in the greenhouse effect (it is also partly a natural cycle) it would be folly for us to ignore a technology that is low cost and safe and allows us to mitigate the effects since whether it is related to human activity or not the effect on the global environment will be the same. Nuclear proponents have almost been afraid to speak up, partly because of the clamour from the "green" lobby, partly because of Chernobyl, and prior to that Three Mile Island. It is refreshing to see a more realistic attitude to this technology - no it is not perfect, yes it can give us breathing room while we phase out the dirtier systems and develop the renewables.