Demand for clean energy inspires new generation to innovate nuclear power

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" JUDY WOODRUFF: Now: why some engineers and investors are making big bets to develop a new generation of nuclear reactors.


Miles O'Brien has the story. It was a co-production with our friends at PBS "NOVA" tied to the January 11 documentary "The Nuclear Option."


His story is part of our weekly series the Leading Edge.


MILES O'BRIEN: This is where nuclear power began. Welcome to the Idaho National Laboratory. It covers a vast swathe of high desert nearly the size of Rhode Island. .... "