ARTICLE: Nuclear power regains support, By Anthony Faiola, Washington Post, November 24, 2009

Gist:

Nuclear power -- long considered environmentally hazardous -- is emerging as perhaps the world's most unlikely weapon against climate change, with the backing of even some green activists who once campaigned against it. It has been 13 years since the last new nuclear power plant opened in the United States. But around the world, nations under pressure to reduce the production of climate-warming gases are turning to low-emission nuclear energy as never before.

The primary reason why our obsession with nukes tends to isolate us more than anybody we target (at least additionally, since these regimes tend to be into isolating themselves quite nicely, thank you). We need to be seen as facilitating this global boom in nuke use, meaning we lead on the monitoring and the networking of enriched fuel (which we seek to do) instead of having so much of our foreign policy wrapped around this axle.