Candidates have good news for nuclear power, FutureGen

Republican presidential candidate John McCain last week endorsed nuclear power and clean coal technology as two paths toward future energy independence. And his Democratic opponent, Barack Obama, has embraced the promising FutureGen technology, once bound for a demonstration project site in Mattoon.

vvIt's true that President Bush promised to expand the use of nuclear power during his term (it hasn't happened) and even used a State of the Union address to unveil the notion of burning coal for electricity and then storing the carbon dioxide emissions underground (although his administration later killed the FutureGen idea).