When the EPA released its new rules aimed to get the nation on the road carbon free (sort of) energy generation, the news was plainly bad for coal. No surprise there. The prospects for renewables – solar, wind, hydro, etc. – were enormously enhanced by the plan. This was also unsurprising.  But what about nuclear power?

As Jonathan Lesser at NRO makes clear, nukes produce lots of electricity and very little carbon.  And they provide: