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Nuclear Power's Achilles Heel

By The Daily Dish

Oct 31 2007, 12:41 PM ET

One word: water. Nuclear power is extremely dependent on lots of easily available - and cool - water supplies. Those supplies, as we see from Atlanta, are under stress. I can't see this as a deal-breaker, but it certainly suggests some of the paradoxes to be faced in grappling with climate change.



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