From the New York Times, I'm Sabrina Tavernisi, and this is the Daily.

Nuclear power, once the great hope for a clean way to meet the world's energy needs,

fell out of favor decades ago.

Today, my colleague Brad Plumer explains how one company with a radical

idea is now working to bring it back. It's Monday, July 29th. Brad,

welcome to the show.

Thank you for having me.

So you cover climate,

and you've been reporting on something that doesn't normally come to mind when I think of climate change,

and that's nuclear power.

It hasn't really been part of the conversation about how to fix climate change really at all in recent years, but now you found

that that is changing. Tell me about that. Yeah, so there is a ton of

innovation and a ton of investment pouring into nuclear power right now.

And a big part of the reason for that is there's this growing sense among experts and

policy makers that in order to fight climate change we really need a wide variety of clean energy technologies.

Right now we have solar power, we have wind power, those are growing incredibly fast and really doing quite well.

But they don't run all the time.

The sun's not always shining, the wind's not always blowing.

And so having something else like nuclear power

that can run all the time would just be incredibly

valuable and might even be necessary if we want to solve climate change.

And that seems pretty important right now, right? I mean we've got these heat waves across the United States.

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