I obviously share your opinion on the necessity of nuclear power. And if it must be so to make it happen, I would have no objections to the industry being more strongly regulated and coordinated, as long as it was done by rational organizations (government and otherwise) and not radiophobic loons.

There are ways to do this right, including a proper fuel recycling system. I have no idea who in our government is going to step up to this and get it rolling.

Neither Pennsylvania nor I will ever trust those bastards again.

Maybe. The other reactor at Three Mile Island is purring away as I write this, and to the best of my knowledge, nobody in Pennsylvania is all that freaked out about it.

As far as that Swedish study is concerned, scientists over there have been breaking their backs for years trying to prove some effect from the radiation in Sweden, with not much luck so far. The mothers in that study were exposed to about twice normal background counts.