campaign promises new nuke plants

Does it make anyone scratch their heads and wonder how building new nuclear power plants is going to help lower the price of a gallon of gas? Obama and McCain have both proposed this as one way to relieve the energy crisis. I guess my bewilderment comes from the realization that in the future the earth will still run out of gas and then we will still be stuck with these extremely dangerous points on the landscape. My thinking has evolved to the point that one of the reasons for the Iraq war was to have a place to dump the growing stockpiles of nuclear waste in the form of DU rounds. Is the US Government this evil?