FASTER, PLEASE: New Nukes Coming Online To Double. “Globally the rate at which new nuclear power plants get turned on to start operating will more than double from 5 to 12 per year in the next 4 years.”

Plus this: “In the United States the Tennessee Valley Authority will start operating the Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor in 2013. Its construction was halted in 1985 but is now being completed. That will be the first added nuke in the US since the 1990s. The TVA has plans for more nuclear reactors including a half dozen small modular reactors. The US government’s commitment to nuclear power is undiminished and nuclear power’s biggest obstacle in the US is the low cost of natural gas from shale.” Well, since Obama-connected GE makes nuclear reactors, better fire up the environmental opposition to cheap shale gas, then.