Nuclear Energy Renaissance: Powering America's Carbon-Free Future

Nuclear energy is one of the most bipartisan issues in this entire platform. This plank is not staking out a third path between two opposed major parties, because the two major parties are not, in fact, opposed here. The 2024 ADVANCE Act's 88-2 Senate and 393-13 House margins reflect cross-party consensus, and Democratic support for nuclear power specifically has risen substantially since 2020 (confirmed by both Gallup and Pew polling), with Democratic governors like New York's Kathy Hochul actively championing new advanced-reactor construction. The Innovation Party's delta is narrower and more specific than "we're different from both parties": take the environmental-justice objection that produced the ADVANCE Act's only two "no" votes seriously as a design flaw to fix (restore the stripped cleanup funding), rather than treating it as anti-nuclear obstruction to be overridden, and be candid that waste-storage siting is a bipartisan local-politics problem (a Republican and a Democratic governor both resisting siting in their own states) that a nonproliferation and waste-volume argument alone doesn't resolve. The Green Party is the outlier here, officially calling nuclear a "false climate solution" and calling for phasing out existing plants, a position increasingly out of step with rising nuclear support even among Democratic voters, per the polling above; an internal reform faction ("Greens for Nuclear Energy") exists but does not reflect official party platform. The Libertarian Party's position is more complicated than simple pro-nuclear sentiment: it supports nuclear power as a market option but opposes the government subsidies, R&D funding, and the Price-Anderson liability cap that the ADVANCE Act's entire federal-support model depends on, an unresolved philosophical tension with this plank's approach, not just a minor footnote.