Don't forget Bill Clinton and the Democratic controlled congress killed funding for the successful IFR nuclear reactor 3 years before it would have been completed. The IFR uses most of the energy content of Uranium and is orders of magnitude more efficient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
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http://www.sustainablenuclear....
The one-sided fight was on. The President's budget, submitted to Congress, contained no funding for the IFR. There is no funding source to tide over a National Laboratory when funding is cut offthe program is dead and that is that. Democrat majorities in the House of Representatives were nothing new, and in themselves they were not especially alarming to the IFR people. During the previous ten years the votes on IFR funding in the House had always been close, and although a majority of the Democrats always opposed, enough of them were in support that IFR development squeaked through each year. The Senate votes on the IFR, sometimes with Republican majorities, sometimes without, as a rule went easier. But this was a very different year: the Administration had gone from weak support of the IFR program to active opposition.