Nuclear is on the upswing. Shares in nuclear-fuel producers
Cameco
and
Centrus Energy
are up 17% and 16%, respectively, in the past month.
NuScale Power
which builds small reactors, is up 7.8%. And
BHP Group
a miner that produces uranium, is up 14%.
It isn’t just stocks. Oliver Stone aired his documentary Nuclear Now! to a packed screening in Davos. Stone argued that nuclear could be a climate-crisis solution and criticized some environmentalists for opposing it.