The Boston Globe highlighted a recent report by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) stressing nuclear energy’s role in reducing carbon emissions. In the editorial, the Globe noted that the urgency of protecting the climate swayed UCS to support conditional measures to preserve nuclear plants, which supply nearly 20 percent of U.S. electricity and more than 56 percent of the nation’s clean energy.
In the report, the group outlined a hard truth about the future. With climate change accelerating, as a new U.N. report underscored, the time to be fussy about how to reduce emissions has passed.