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Our Nation's nuclear power plants are vital national assets that provide reliable, carbon-free electricity.

Meeting state and national carbon reduction goals will be compromised without existing nuclear power plants.

Yes, I do. And it's driven by people being concerned about carbon emissions and global warming, and common sense taking hold.

The issue for nuclear is that, because it does these good things, like reduce carbon and have reliability and be part of the diversity mix, it gets no credit for this in the marketplace.