For the nuclear power industry, long allies of nuclear weapons proponents, the worry over global climate change could not have come at a better time. The big environmental organizations have been focused on greenhouse gas emissions while the “nuclear renaissance” moves forward unabated. Republicans have long supported nuclear weapons and power. The Obama administration supports fewer nuclear weapons, but more nuclear energy. David Axelrod played a major role in selling nuclear power as a bridge to Obama’s energy future when he was in private life and that became Obama policy.

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