by Addison Smith Alternative clean energy plans to the Democrats’ Green New Deal are getting a boost from a new generation of nuclear energy technology, which can produce zero-carbon emission electricity with a much smaller footprint than earlier reactors. The innovations and advances of the nuclear power industry are gaining favor from Europe and Asia to America, transforming a debate that has been dominated over the last decade by solar and wind development. Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks, R-Iowa, who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee and serves as Vice Chair for the Conservative Climate Caucus, said nuclear has “come back into the forefront” of the energy policy because it is abundant, continuously generating and zero emissions. “We want a cleaner, healthier planet,” Miller-Meeks told a recent Just the News special report sponsored by ClearPath “But we also want to be able to compete economically around the globe.” Wind and solar, she said, cannot provide a “continual base load that will be able to provide energy and electricity if the sun’s not shining, and the wind isn’t blowing.” By contrast “natural gas and nuclear are two of those things” that can, and nuclear specifically can do so while helping…
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