Iowa Rep. King: Drilling is part of the solution

King, who said he’s “skeptical” about global warming, came to the meetings with charts and graphs to press his case to what were clearly receptive gatherings. At one point in Creston, members of the audience chanted “drill, drill, drill.”
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In King’s view, a comprehensive energy strategy must rely heavily on nuclear power as well. King said concerns sparked by the nation’s most infamous nuclear accident at Three Mile Island are exaggerated.

“By the way, if you had been chained to the reactor at Three Mile Island when it started its reactivity, you would have gotten about the equivalent dose of an X-ray,” King said in Council Bluffs. “And that was all. So the safest energy we have is nuclear.”