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Last week Sweden stopped living in dreamland, believing it could power its country with butterflies and puppy dogs and happy thoughts, and made the harsh, unpopular, but ultimately correct decision to turn to nuclear power to provide their energy solutions.

One of the greenest countries in the planet, which even had enacted a policy in 1980 that would have had it decommission all its existing nuclear plants by 2010, Sweden finally realize the current futility of the leftist-dream of using “green” power as a viable alternative to coal and oil.  Now, that is not to say that it can’t be done eventually, but the current economies of scale just aren’t there. Even the United State’s foolish attempt to force the use of ethanol as an automotive fuel would not have even been possible without heavy Federal Government subsidies.

There may come a time to use a food as a fuel, but that time is not now.  Especially in the rapidly deteriorating economic climate, food is best used as food, and nuclear power used as nuclear power.

A northern country with a social conscience, Sweden long ago decided to eschew nuclear power and turn its efforts to renewable sources of energy. Thus it has led the world in renewable power technology: It has captured the wind, tamed the rivers and the seas, increased insulation, stolen energy from the sun and even tapped the Earth for its thermal power.

But last week, the Swedish government conceded the futility of trying to run a modern nation on a dream. It turned back a policy set out in 1980 to decommission all its nuclear power plants, and embarked on a new age of the atom.

This follows decisions to pursue nuclear power by Great Britain, France, and Finland.  Germany is trying not be left behind as smart countries look to the past to assure their future. When will the U.S. follow?