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Although I am not at all sure that this counts as 'Doom News' I recently came across two articles that suggest nuclear power may our main source of power in the future. 

NY Times: Chilly Climate for Oil Refiners
Only a few years ago, a cry went up that the United States needed more oil refineries...  ...The business of oil refining is mired in a deep crisis, with five refineries having shut down this year...  ...Gasoline demand, which many analysts had long expected to keep rising for decades, is down sharply in the recession. And refiners are increasingly convinced that even after the economy recovers, demand will not grow much in coming years because of the rise of alternative fuel supplies and the advent of tougher efficiency standards for automobiles.

NY Times: Loan Program May Stir Nuclear Industry
When experts on power grid reliability asked themselves recently how a cleaner energy future would look, seven of eight regional councils imagined how their systems would work with 10 percent wind power.
 Only one, representing the southeastern United States, chose a radically different option: doubling nuclear power capacity.
 Thirty years after the American nuclear industry abandoned scores of half-built plants because of soaring costs and operating problems like the Three Mile Island accident, scepticism persists over whether the technology is worth investing in. Yet the pendulum may be swinging back. The 104 plants now running have sharply raised their output, emboldening utilities across the country to make a case for building new ones.
 And the industry is about to get a big boost. In the next few days, the Energy Department plans to announce the first of $18.5 billion in loan guarantees for building new reactors.

The power industry has glutted itself on oil and is unlikely to develop any business tactics that fly in the face of profiteering. And with Nuclear fuel offered as the new energy source for this century it is likely that we (in the west anyway) will be using nuclear energy for almost all our power needs.

How would these articles qualify 'Doom News'? Once oil is no longer making big money I can envisage the power industry and all it's investors turning their attentions to nuclear power. And they will expect a return on their investment, health and safety notwitstanding. Considering all the oil spills and health and safety infractions at oil refineries and tankers it is disturbing that we may be handing nuclear power into the hands of the same sort of idiots that put their personal profit before health and safety.