Nuclear Power, Anyone?

It's time to turn to nuclear power and to spend the vast sums of money that are required to upgrade our decades old, and in some parts century old, electrical power grid to modern capacities. Otherwise, we are going to be hearing more and more about power failures and blackouts in Queens, St. Louis, and Los Angeles. Burning fossil fuels is so 1800s. It's time to make the leap into the 21st country or we'll be reading more articles like this one from the New York Times about Los Angeles:

Unrelenting tropical heat and humidity has driven demand for electricity to record highs in California and other states. If people could not take the weather anymore, neither could transformers and other equipment, which sputtered and shorted out and left tens of thousands of people without power today.

Authorities in California warned that the high demand could lead later this afternoon to an emergency order for rolling blackouts, a dreaded term here that brings reminders of widespread blackouts in 2003 during an energy supply crisis.

and St. Louis:

Meanwhile, lighting from thunderstorms have compounded problems in other parts of the country, leaving more than 200,000 people in the St. Louis area without electricity since Wednesday. Utility officials in Missouri said they expected to restore power to most customers by the middle of the week.

That's right, the headlines about record temperatures are everywhere and our desire for 68 degree interior temperatures just won't be satisfied with ever growing populations, rising prices of oil, and antiquated energy provisions. We're well on into the time when we should be determining how to supply our needs domestically and pollution-free nuclear is the key.