U.S. should commit to being a leader in nuclear technologies

U.S. should commit to being a leader in nuclear technologies
The recent approval of an application to build two reactors at Plant Vogtle in Georgia and a $10 million federal infusion of funding for researching nuclear technologies should be followed by further U.S. commitments to nuclear energy, writes J. Scott Peterson, senior vice president of communications at the Nuclear Energy Institute. "It would be shortsighted for our nation to cede this leadership, and tens of thousands of jobs, to other nations by not building on this momentum," Peterson writes. The Huffington Post