Sentences with phrase «while nuclear advocates»

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O'Donovan advocates renouncing unilaterally any nuclear retaliation on cities and calls for a multilateral effort to reduce global tensions while upgrading limited war - fighting capabilities — his own form of nonpacifist realism.

But while a growing number of Democrats have come to see the importance of fair and equal treatment of clean energy sources to solve climate change, a handful of elected officials remain ideologically opposed to nuclear power — even as they advocate subsidies for wind and solar.

Though optimistic that Fukushima will eventually be instructive, in the short run it will make a CES more difficult because a rising anti-nuclear sentiment «makes it difficult to put nuclear in» an energy standard, while at the same time, nuclear advocates will say, «If you're not putting nuclear in, we're not going to have a standard.»

While the Trump administration's recent budget request alone may not move H.R. 3053 to the floor, both are «reassuring» developments that could resolve political and financial hurdles blockading Yucca Mountain development, said Katrina McMurrian, executive director of the Nuclear Waste Strategy Coalition (NWSC), an entity whose membership includes state utility commissions, state consumer advocates, state energy officials, and owners of operating and shutdown reactors.

Over the last half decade or so it has become increasingly difficult for so - called environmentalists to advocate replacing nuclear plants while also campaigning for action on climate change.