Sen. Mark Udall's Nuclear Boost Risks Enviro Wrath. By David O. Williams, Colorado Independent, October 29, 2009. "Colorado U.S. Sen. Mark Udall Wednesday took his boldest step yet on the road to a national nuclear renaissance as part of a program designed to combat global warming. He introduced the Nuclear Energy Research Initiative Improvement Act of 2009 in a lengthy speech on the Senate floor in which he acknowledged he was likely stepping on an environmental landmine... The Senate bill, co-sponsored by Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), and Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) would clear the way for the U.S. Department of Energy to engage in research into modular and small-scale nuclear reactors, cost-efficient manufacturing for nuclear power facilities and enhanced proliferation controls. The bill is largely viewed as an olive branch to key Republicans who insist nuclear power, a nearly carbon-free source of energy, must play a bigger role in the pending Boxer-Kerry climate change bill, which would set a cap on carbon emissions and penalize the nation's largest polluters."
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