Remember 3-mile Island. Carter and his gang of roving idiots allowed that serious problem to become fodder for late night jokes and official policy for the last 30 years.
Don't think Obama and company will NOT use this to shutdown future nuclear plants in this country and possibly go after the ones we have.
You're right. We, as a Country, are completely screwed on energy policy until 2013. hussein obama and his envrio-whacko base will use this to shut down the nuclear power industry. We've already seen hussein obama, Salazar, and the other anti-business whack-jobs kill the domestic oil drilling industry. They used the accident in the Gulf of Mexico as an excuse, and they're riding it. The problems in Japan due to the quake and tsunami will give them their excuse to crush our power plants.
Forget the economic recovery (if it was even starting, which I doubt). Energy prices are going to continue to climb, and the economy is going to continue to falter, if not get worse. All thanks to obama and his ilk and their mis-guided ideology, willing to sacrifice us and our standard of living on the altar of their pet political theories. (that we all know fail anyway)