Cooling towers at the shuttered Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. — ©2024 The New York Times Company
FOR years at global climate summits, nuclear energy was seen by many as part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Sama Bilbao y Leon has been attending the annual United Nations climate change talks since 1999, when she was a student of nuclear engineering. And for most of that time, she said, people didn’t want to discuss nuclear power at all.
