Spectral lines: The public and nuclear power

Sixty-three percent of the American public favors more nuclear power plants, Louis Harris revealed to an assemblage of journalists at the Engineers Club in New York City on August 5. The new Harris poll findings showed 19 percent opposed and 18 percent not sure. Harris himself thinks this is a clear indication of how the public would vote on issues such as those posed in the California Nuclear Initiative (Spectrum, June, p. 26), which provides for a moratorium on the construction of nuclear plants in the State of California.