The NRC's last new reactor approval predates Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, all of which dented public support (and not just in America either: nuclear power supplies three-fourths of France's electricity, yet in one poll 57% of French respondents favoured abandoning it).

ECONOMIST: America��s nuclear industry struggles to get off the floor

Yet so far all this fuss has barely dented Mr Thaksin's popularity.

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"I don't think the Taipei crash has dented its image at all, " she says.

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Chavez says he does not know to what extent--if at all--Google's profits have been dented by censoring efforts, such as Thailand's recent ban on the company's YouTube video site.

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