Nuclear Energy’s Prospects Fall As Natural Gas Booms By Reid Frazier | May 30, 2018 More More on Energy Subscribe to Energy Natural gas has been touted as a bridge to a clean energy future, and it’s replaced coal as the country’s top power source. But it’s also causing problems for another source of energy: nuclear. As Reid Frazier (@reidfrazier) of The Allegheny Front and StateImpact Pennsylvania reports, that could be a setback in the fight against climate change. Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.