Now, another thing that is missed, solutions like carbon trading with cap-n-trade and taxation of emissions have been declared as tool of the devil by many conservatives, we came to that sad state of affairs when powerful interests convinced many conservatives that that was the case.
Now the sad part, it is clear that if cap-and-trade and other mechanisms like a tax on emissions had been in place, it is very likely that industry would had found that nuclear was still economically viable.