In a blatant attempt to reverse the last 25 years of "no nukes" US energy policy, Bush today made the first appearance by a US president in a nuclear power plant, since 1979 when Jimmy Carter went to 3 Mile Island. To assure us there was never any danger to the public.

In his bully pulpit appearance today, Bush proclaimed "Nuclear power is one of America's safest sources of energy."

The Bush energy bill, currently wending it's way through Congress (again), calls for a number of incentives to spur construction of nuclear plants, including a renewal of federal risk insurance and tax credits for companies that develop new reactors. In addition, the Bush administration has launched a $1 billion initiative to help underwrite the cost of licensing plants.

No new plant projects have been undertaken since the Three Mile Island accident, when the reactor core partially melted down, and substantial amounts of radiation were released into the environment.

While Bush told a whopper of an outrageous lie today when he claimed that the 103 operating nuclear plants generate 20% of the nation's electricity "without producing a single pound of air pollution or greenhouse gases", he failed to mention that pesky, still unresolved problem of finding a permanent disposal site for spent radioactive reactor fuel, which continues to accumulate.

Keep voting for Republicans and appease the right centrist Democrats folks. They are doing a fine job destroying the nation and the world in the name of "less government" and "lower taxes".