Nuclear Support Reaches All-Time High
A new poll shows support for nuclear power at its highest since Gallup first asked the question in 1994.
Sixty-two percent of the 1,014 Americans polled say they favor nuclear as one way to meet national electricity needs.
Republican support hit a high of seventy-four percent, up from seventy-one percent last year. Meanwhile, Democratic support was just fifty-one percent, down from fifty-two percent in 2009.
The poll suggests growing support for expanded nuclear loan guarantees in Senate climate proposals, as well as the Energy Department's recent award of $8.3 billion in guarantees for two new reactors in Georgia.
The data, collected March 4-7 by Gallup, have a 4 percentage point margin of error.
To read the Gallup poll, click HERE.
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