Believe it or not, nuclear power influencers aren’t a new idea

Nuclear power, long derided as too expensive and too dangerous, is having a bit of a comeback, thanks in part to a new generation of influencers who have embraced the atom (seemingly, without question).

- Stephen Mihm, Tribune News Service

A recent New York Times profile of influencer Isabelle Boemeke — who likes to pose with uranium pellets and other atomic swag — neatly captured our nation's newfound enthusiasm for nuclear power. Ah, youth. If an earlier generation of enthusiasts were still alive, they would almost certainly retort: “Hold my coffee.” That's because the original atomic culture they created puts to shame anything that our current crop of pronuclear pundits could ever produce — and a quick tour of that past suggests this latest revival is just as unlikely to pan out.