The government insists that a European carbon-pricing scheme will allow the private sector to build reactors without explicit state subsidies.

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In that regard, you're aware that our Parliament has passed a new bill, pricing carbon -- a carbon tax, if you like.

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The coal industry may be fighting new federal emissions standards, air-pollution regulations and even the idea of carbon pricing, but those things are all a boon for carbon-free nuclear power.

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Nuclear energy's best hope lies in carbon pricing, which forces fossil-fuel plants to pay for the environmental cost of the carbon they generate.

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In other words, free-market pricing leads to fewer outputs of carbon.

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Mr Kim, an avid advocate against global warming, said the bank's and the world's top priorities needed to be energy pricing, ending fuel subsidies and making low-carbon cities.

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The to-do list is well-known, from investing in the infrastructure for electric vehicles to pricing carbon.

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The report does point to the benefits of nuclear power, including competitive pricing, strong base-load power provision, and low-carbon emissions.

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For another, the commercial case for high-speed rail should be strengthened once aviation starts to pay its true environmental costs through carbon pricing.

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