The U.S. Senate this week passed a bill that aims to speed up the construction of new nuclear power generation capacity. “In a major victory for our climate and American energy security, the U.S. Senate has passed the ADVANCE Act with overwhelming, bipartisan support,” said the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Democrat Tom Carper, as quoted by Reuters. Nuclear power is reemerging in the public discourse about the energy transition because of its emissions-free status as an energy source, which…
