Nuclear Industry Reluctant toward New Technology

President Bush may be cheerleading for nuclear power, but the electric industry is not ready to order new reactors.
Electric companies have shown more interest in building nuclear reactors in the last few months than they have in the last two decades. But conditions are not yet right to induce companies and investors to gamble the billion or two it would take to build a reactor and see whether the country is ready for a second round of plants, according to industry experts.