The Importance of Nuclear Power in the Transition to Renewables

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CNN's John Sutter asks Robert De Niro if he has rethought his position on nuclear power. "I'm all for it if they can ever make it safe or if they ever make it economical," says De Niro. He adds that there is no way a nuclear plant could compete in a free market without massive public subsidies. 'If you tell me how that, you know, if they had to amortize that rate up front, there's no way anybody do it'

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