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Nuclear Energy's Prospects Fall As Natural Gas Booms

Natural gas has been touted as a bridge to a clean energy future, and it’s replaced coal as the country’s top power source. But it’s also causing problems for another source of energy: nuclear.

As Reid Frazier (@reidfrazier) of The Allegheny Front and StateImpact Pennsylvania reports, that could be a setback in the fight against climate change.

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