WASHINGTON, D.C. — Despite a major sales push by the Bush Administration and the electrical utility industry, nuclear power is viewed in a deeply skeptical way by a ‘strong and strikingly bipartisan majority’ of Americans, according to a major new Opinion Research Corporation (ORC) survey released today by the Civil Society Institute (CSI), a nonpartisan and nonprofit think tank that has conducted extensive public opinion research into the attitude of Americans about energy-related issues. According to the survey, Americans favor developing clean renewable energy alternatives and strategies – including increased conservation, solar energy and wind power — that can be delivered more rapidly than nuclear power. The new CSI survey found that more than three out of five Americans (61 percent) say the nation can’t ‘afford to wait ¦ to put in place part of the solution to the energy crisis and global warming’ if ‘building more nuclear power plants will take a decade or more in the U.S. and cost tens of billions of dollars.’ Only a third said the U.S. could wait for more nuclear power plants to come on-line as a way to dealing with today’s energy and climate woes. A key survey finding: Politics […]