A lot of politicians seem to love nuclear power�from John McCain to Angela Merkel and Silvio Berlusconi. But more importantly, public opinion everywhere is getting behind them.

Getting on the bandwagon (AP)Look at Germany. A few years ago, a center-left government beholden to Greens agreed to shut down Germany's nuclear power plants and build no more new ones�a wildly popular decision in country where waylaying railcars carrying nuclear waste is considered sport. Last week, Germany's conservative leader Angela Merkel, still...