Not to mention that when windmills were erected off of Cape Cod, Ted Kennedy himself fought strenuously to have them removed. He didn't want alternative forms of power in his backyard. He thought they were unsightly and not becoming a community as posh as Cape Cod!
So we have liberals fighting against any form of energy that could actually work, or that would be put in their own backyard.
Nuclear energy is the one form of energy that could solve just about every problem Democrats have with energy. It's not imported. It's incredibly safe. It's incredibly clean (i.e. it doesn't contribute to "global warming"). Yet they rail against it.
The Liberal Argument: The science is just not there concerning nuclear power. It's far too dangerous a risk at this time. Nuclear waste lasts hundreds of thousands of years and there's no reliable way to get rid of the billions of tons of it that would be produced.
The Conservative Rebuttal: Fortunately, a new book by Gwenyth Cravens debunks ALL of these myths. Not surprising to learn that liberals would argue with their backs to the facts!
And here are the facts from Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy :
There are three ways to provide large-scale electricity—the kind that reliably meets the demands of our civilization around the clock. In the United States:
- 75% of that baseload electricity comes from power plants that burn fossil fuels, mainly coal, and emit carbon dioxide. Toxic waste from coal-fired plants kills 24,000 Americans annually.
- 5% comes from hydroelectric plants.
- Less than 1% comes from wind and solar power.
- 20% comes from nuclear plants that use low-enriched uranium as fuel, burn nothing, and emit virtually no CO2. In 50 years of operation, they have caused no deaths to the public.
When I began my research eight years ago, I'd assumed that we had many choices in the way we made electricity. But we don't.
Nuclear power is the only large-scale, environmentally-benign, time-tested technology currently available to provide clean electricity. Wind and solar power have a role to play, but since they’re diffuse and intermittent, they can't provide baseload, and they always require some form of backup--usually from burning fossil fuels, which have a huge impact on public health.
My tour of the nuclear world began with a chance question I asked of Dr. D. Richard ("Rip") Anderson. He and his wife Marcia Fernández work tirelessly to preserve open land, clean air, and the aquifer in the Rio Grande Valley. Rip, a skeptically-minded chemist, oceanographer, and expert on nuclear environmental health and safety, told me that the historical record shows that nuclear power is cleaner, safer, and more environmentally friendly than any other form of large-scale electricity production. I was surprised to learn that:
Nuclear power emits no gases because it does not burn anything; it provides 73% of America's clean-air electricity generation, using fuel that is tiny in volume but steadily provides an immense amount of energy.
Uranium is more energy-dense than any other fuel. If you got all of your electricity for your lifetime solely from nuclear power, your share of the waste would fit in a single soda can. If you got all your electricity from coal, your share would come to 146 tons: 69 tons of solid waste that would fit into six rail cars and 77 tons of carbon dioxide that would contribute to accelerated global warming.
A person living within 50 miles of a nuclear plant receives less radiation from it in a year than you get from eating one banana. Someone working in the U.S. Capitol Building is exposed to more radioactivity than a uranium miner.
Spent nuclear fuel is always shielded and isolated from the public.
Annual waste from one typical reactor could fit in the bed of a standard pickup. The retired fuel from 50 years of U.S. reactor operation could fit in a single football field; it amounts to 77,000 tons. A large coal-fired plant produces ten times as much solid waste in one day, much of it hazardous to health. We discard 179,000 tons of batteries annually--they contain toxic heavy metals.
Nuclear power's carbon dioxide emissions throughout its life-cycle and while producing electricity are about the same as those of wind power.
Nuclear plants offer a clean alternative to fossil-fuel plants. In the U.S. 104 nuclear reactors annually prevent emissions of 682 million tons of CO2. Worldwide, over 400 power reactors reduce CO2 emissions by 2 billion metric tons a year.
Liberal Lunacy 
Why do Democrats rail against nuclear power? They constantly demand that we move to "energy independence", but they always reject any means by which that could actually happen. They argue for solar power, wind power, soybean power, but all of those are supplementary forms of energy. They will never be primary sources of energy as they are too intermittent.