Global warming heats up a nuclear energy renaissance Global warming and the BP oil spill have helped rehabilitate nuclear energy in the eyes of the public – and some environmentalists.

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Nuclear energy is on the rise, in part because of concerns of fossil-fuel-stoked global warming. The Obama administration is encouraging new nuclear power plants. Georgia Power’s Vogtle Nuclear power facility (leftO is the first to get federal loan guarantees to construct a new nuclear plant. It would be the first such facility built in the US in 30 years.

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Global warming, oil spill fuel popularity of nuclear energy
Concerns about greenhouse gases linked to global warming, coupled with the public outcry over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, have galvanized opinion in favor of nuclear energy. President Barack Obama in February approved federal loan guarantees for the country's first new nuclear plants in 30 years, and a Gallup survey in March showed that nuclear was supported by 62% of Americans, the highest since the polling service first asked about the subject in 1994. The Christian Science Monitor

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