1. NUCLEAR:
Climate propels nuclear power into uncharted waters

When Frank L. "Skip" Bowman, a retired Navy admiral, became commander of his first nuclear attack submarine, the USS City of Corpus Christi, he developed a way of sprinting. Crossing the Pacific, he would run full speed underwater at night, often surfacing at his destination ahead of schedule so his crew could spend part of the day swimming and relaxing. In his new job, as president and chief executive of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the trade association that represents the nuclear power plant industry, sprinting is mandatory, arriving ahead of schedule will be virtually impossible and nothing about this mission will be relaxing. Any slipups in his attempts to get the recovering nuclear industry to build new power plants will cause price spikes in other energy markets and could trigger a consumer backlash. Go to story #1