A growing number of environmentalists support nuclear. James Hansen, for example, advocates advanced nuclear in his book <i>Storms of My Grandchildren</i>. Several other very prominent environmentalists talk about their conversion to nuclear advocacy in the documentary <i>Pandora&#x27;s Promise</i>.<p>And we <i>could</i> cut CO2 emissions from industrialized countries quite soon, with the right kind of nuclear power. ThorCon, for example, has a design for a molten salt reactor using existing technology, which could be built in modular form at a rate of 100GWe capacity per year by a single shipyard. It&#x27;d be safe, very proliferation resistant, six times more fuel-efficient than conventional reactors, and as cheap as natural gas. Their only problem is that the NRC won&#x27;t let them do anything.<p>75% of U.S. coal plants are scheduled for retirement within the next decade. Air pollution from coal kills thousands of Americans per year, according to the American Lung Association. We have lots of shipyards. We have a historic opportunity here, if the government will get out of the way.