Breakthrough: Newfangled reactors will slash costs of nuclear power

Environmentalists are increasingly emerging from the closet to back nuclear power for a low carbon energy future that staves off the ravages of CO2-induced climate change.

Yet some green campaigners who accept the nuclear argument still oppose the technology because, they say, nuclear reactors require a king’s ransom to build.

Now, the Breakthrough Institute – a youthful group dedicated to "an ecologically vibrant planet" – has given those holdouts a good reason to drop their final objections and join the nuclear cause.

By Mark Halper

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