Nuclear Stocks Are Still Too Hot to Handle. How to Play It Safe.

The nuclear story is cracking as rising interest rates take a toll. Stocks like Constellation Energy look relatively secure.

The former Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Constellation Energy plans to supply power to Microsoft from one of the reactors. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Nuclear power has rarely had more powerful backers—or more frustrated shareholders.

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