Energy crisis making way for ‘nuclear renaissance’

Global warming fears, rising fuel prices spur the comeback

WASHINGTON


“I believe very strongly that new nuclear plants will be built in the U.S. in the coming decades to address problems with respect to higher energy demand, high prices and global warming,” said Sudarshan Loyalka, a professor of nuclear engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia. “I believe the nation has no other choice.”

Even some environmentalists are swallowing their previous distaste for atomic energy and supporting the expansion of nuclear power in the United States.

Some earlier foes now regard coal, the cheapest but dirtiest fuel, as worse for the environment than nukes.

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