Energy: We're Fighting for Our Lives

It's dim now, but the future of nuclear power may brighten

Even the strongest advocates of nuclear power have warned for years that it would take only one accident to cripple the U.S. atomic energy program. Just hours after that pump failed at Three Mile Island, the chief environmentalist for a New England utility predicted: "This is the end of nuclear power. From now on in, it's going to be coal city."

His prediction may have been premature. A year after the accident that drove thousands of Pennsylvanians from their homes and did even more...

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