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Hillary Clinton sees a role for nuclear power and the Idaho National Laboratory in her clean energy future but Bernie Sanders wants to end nuclear power and provide funds to transition workers into other jobs.

Both Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have ambitious plans to shift the nation’s economy away from fossil fuels to clean energy to combat the global warming caused by their burning.

But as the two Democratic presidential candidates campaign and compete in Idaho in the days before the Tuesday caucus, the largest contrast is their views of the role nuclear power will play in the clean-energy future.

Little polling has been in the state, but the last poll in February by Dan Jones and Associates for Idaho Politics Weekly showed Sanders with a tiny 47-45 percent lead, within the margin of error. That was a rise of 12 points for the Vermont senator from a poll earlier this year.

“It was very close,” said Dan Jones, the Salt Lake City, Utah, pollster. “My guess is it is still close.”

Sanders was picking up votes from independents, the poll showed, who can vote in the caucuses if they did not vote in the March 8 Republican primary.