By Robert Bryce, includes “Last month, the Democratic Party came out in favor of nuclear energy for the first time in five decades. The party’s platform said the ‘urgent need’ to decarbonize the electric grid requires using ‘all zero-carbon technologies’ including ‘existing and advanced nuclear.’ … But here’s the rub: preventing the closure of Byron and Dresden will likely require some type of subsidy – like a zero-emission credit – that will allow Exelon to make a profit on the plants. That’s not an easy sale.”