The U.S. nuclear industry has a really bad PR problem. Although significant nuclear power growth is anticipated across the globe over the next few decades, the U.S. is unlikely to add much in the way of nuclear. There are a couple of reasons for this...

The first, and most obvious, is the dirt-cheap price of natural gas. Even with massive subsidies, nuclear simply cannot compete with natural gas.

The second reason is image. Although the United States has been spared the aftermath of catastrophic nuclear meltdowns, images of Chernobyl and Fukushima haven't gone gently into that good night. What's worse, since the Fukushima disaster, the domestic nuclear industry has been under a media microscope. These days, it doesn't take much to reinforce nuclear's negative image.