Nuclear a viable alternative?

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Probably not

McCain then launches into a discussion of the solutions. The bad news is that he believes nuclear power is “the cleanest, cheapest, in many ways, source of power,” even though over half of all existing U.S. nuclear power plants are “bleeding cash” according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance report released earlier this summer. McCain also pushes the tired myth that it’s environmental opposition that is stopping nuclear power, rather than its unaffordable cost. The nuclear industry has simply priced itself out of the market for new plants. As one business columnist wrote last month, “Let it be written that environmentalists didn’t kill the nuclear power industry, economics did.”

McCain baffled about GOP climate denial: ‘I can’t divine their motives’ – ThinkProgress

To his credit, McCain isn't a climate denier, quite unusual in his party.