Tierney: Nuke Power is a Loser Technology

The NYTimes' latest attempt to trivialize conservative viewpoints, also known as John Tierney, is against nuclear power because some environmentalists are now for it. He reasons that if nuclear power were any good there'd be lots of private investment dollars behind it, but there doesn't seem to be any such private investment push and so nuclear power must be no better than windmills and cow dung.
He must be thinking of all those investment dollars feverishly competing to back countless other industrial enterprizes for the chance to earn solid long term returns. Yep, we wouldn't want to jeopardize all that investment in private manufacturing just to invest in some new-age pipe dream like nuclear energy.
Perhaps he's thinking of how efficient the free-market is at delivering large-scale regional power supplies. He seems to forget that, with President Bush's Guest Worker program, we wouldn't even have to hire any Americans to work the plants - hey, that should get the private investment dollars humming!