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Article: United States: Climate Change Pushes Nuclear Power.
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- July 11, 2009
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Byline: kusumv03
Cooler heads are prevailing in the debate over the future of nuclear energy. In energy-policy circles, there is a growing sense that the climate challenge has fundamentally improved the prospects for nuclear energy in the United States.
Although no new plants are under construction, and insufficient progress has been made on the waste issue, nuclear energy is now part of the dialogue on energy policy. Bill Reilly, chairman emeritus of the World Wildlife Fund and former administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said recently that clean-energy legislation probably will not pass in the Senate without support for nuclear ...