The Nation - News from May 9, 1985

President Reagan has agreed to set up a Cabinet-level look at the future of nuclear power in light of 114 plant cancellations and no orders for new reactors in the last seven years, Energy Secretary John S. Herrington said. “The hard truth is that the public’s perception of nuclear power is not good,” Herrington told the Nuclear Power Assembly, an organization of utility and nuclear industry executives. Herrington blamed, among other things, the 1979 Three Mile Island plant accident in Pennsylvania and skyrocketing construction costs.