Roger Witherspoon, writing in E! Magazine, examines the exorbitant costs of new reactors and how new expansion could shift both the risks and the financial burden onto taxpayers. He concludes with this gem of a quote about the nuclear industry from Ellen Vancko of the Union of Concerned Scientists: " If they can eliminate the public and tie the hands of the regulators and get the taxpayers to pick up the bill, they should be able to move along quite nicely."