This is Not Your Dad's Nuclear Power

I've argued in the past that the US needs to build more nuclear power plants to meet the rising energy needs in the future.

Third World County has a good post discussing other nation's progressive use of this safer technology:

Well, in a business piece (in a paper notoriously hostile to any business that doesn't toe its own political correctness line), this is about as good as it gets. Misses the critical information that the (many more than 20 or 21) nuclear power plants already being built by China are almost all of the ultra safe, ultra low waste pebble bed reactor type, which is also much less expensive and less technically demanding than traditional reactors of the type that Three Mile Island conjures up.

Why does the NYT article still play up the investment (and other) risks of nuclear power and ignore the safety, financial advantage and technical ease of building pebble bed reactors?

We have the capability of building cheaper, more powerful plants that can be spread over a large part of the country. If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission were to fast track approvals and a major blitz was put on to educate the public about the new safe guards of nuclear power, perhaps we could get this moving.