Japan’s nuclear crisis may affect US’s nuclear future

New York Times : After Japan’s earthquake and subsequent problems with its nuclear power plants, the US is reexamining its position on nuclear power. Until this past weekend, President Obama, mainstream environmental groups, and large numbers of Republicans and Democrats in Congress agreed that nuclear power offered a steady energy source and part of the solution to climate change, even as they disagreed on virtually every other aspect of energy policy, writes John Broder for the New York Times. “I think it calls on us here in the US, naturally, not to stop building nuclear power plants but to put the brakes on right now until we understand the ramifications of what’s happened in Japan,” said Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), one of the Senate’s leading voices on energy, on CBS’s Face the Nation.