The need to decarbonise electric grids to limit greenhouse-gas emissions has spurred liberals, historically wary of nuclear power’s toxic-waste problem, to rethink their stance
second world war, America’s newly created Atomic Energy Commission was on the hunt for a remote site where engineers could work out how to turn the raw, world-altering power contained in a nuclear bomb into electricity. They settled on the desert shrubland of south-eastern Idaho. Towns in the area fell over themselves to compete for the headquarters of the reactor test site, viewing it as a catalyst for growth. Idaho Falls, then a city of 19,000, launched what it called “the party plan”.
Today, America’s nuclear-power industry is partying again. Nuclear is a carbon-free alternative to other sources of steady baseload power, such as coal and natural gas. Nuclear reactors are much smaller than wind or solar farms, whichand attract legal challenges from groups with different visions of how the land should be used. . In America, 46% of Democrats favour using nuclear energy for electricity, the highest proportion in a decade.
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