Birds are seen along the shore of the Susquehanna River near the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, where the U.S. suffered its most serious nuclear accident in 1979, in Middletown, Pennsylvania March 15, 2011. U.S. regulators should press ahead with approving construction licenses for new nuclear power plants despite Japan's nuclear crisis, President Barack Obama's top energy official Energy Secretary Steven Chu said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENERGY DISASTER ENVIRONMENT ANIMALS BUSINESS)