Instapundit highlights Germany's Social Democratsopposed to extending the life of the country's nuclear power plants; however, the Merkel government is for extending them. Now, this from the UK. The rationale may be Green, but the power is still nuclear. Meanwhile, the US is nowhere to be found in these headlines. Obama and Sebelius are stuck trying to explain sell the confusedangry American people ObamaCare, which they don't want. If we continue under the leadership of Obama and the Democrats, the U.S. won't be leading the way on much of anything, anymore.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Britain intends to build a new generation of nuclear power plants to replace its decades-old reactors, partly as a strategy for meeting its goals to reduce carbon emissions, Foreign Minister William Hague said Monday.
"We will have, from the 2020s onward, an expanding nuclear power sector," Hague told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Hague's main topic was the urgency of an international accord to address climate change - which he said, along with the proliferation of nuclear weapons, is among the key crises facing the world in the 21st century.
Partly as a strategic decision to lower its carbon emissions and reliance on imported energy, "We have decided in Britain to build a new generation of nuclear power stations."
"I really see no alternative to that except excessive dependence on oil and gas, and imported liquefied natural gas," Hague said.