Bernie Sanders is all wrong on nuclear power

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It is difficult to take Bernie Sanders’s vision for a carbon-free energy future seriously when he vehemently rejects the technology that does the most to achieve such a goal.

Nuclear power composes 19.7% of the United States’s electricity generation. It is also America’s largest source of low-carbon energy, providing more than 55% of carbon-free electricity.

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