A poll conducted in June 2001 among a random national sample of 689 adults shows that just over four in 10 Americans are open to building more nuclear plants, more than double the number just after the Chernobyl accident in 1986.

Indeed opposition to nuclear power has declined slightly from its level in another poll conducted in April 2001, just before George W. Bush released an energy plan that urges nuclear plant construction. The change occurred almost entirely among Republicans, suggesting they were rallying behind Bush: Their support for nuclear plants rose from 50 percent in April to 63 percent now.

Some people including republicans and scientists made enthusiastic claims about the benefits that nuclear energy would bring to the world. It wa

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