Article here.

"There were legitimate reasons to worry about nuclear power, but now that we know about the threat of climate change, we have to put the risks in perspective," he says. "Sure, nuclear waste is a problem, but the great thing about it is you know where it is and you can guard it. The bad thing about coal waste is that you don’t know where it is and you don’t know what it's doing. The carbon dioxide is in everybody’s atmosphere."

..."It is one of the great revelatory bets," he now says. "Any time that people are forced to acknowledge publicly that they’re wrong, it’s really good for the commonweal. I love to be busted for apocalyptic proclamations that turned out to be 180 degrees wrong. In 1973 I thought the energy crisis was so intolerable that we’d have police on the streets by Christmas. The times I’ve been wrong is when I assume there’s a brittleness in a complex system that turns out to be way more resilient than I thought."

Some good thinking here. I've been a fan of his since the WEC, and during his fling with O'Neill Colonies.

Still, I'm not sure I'm as comfortable with the idea of "biotech hackers" as he is. Brrrrrrr.....