Leaving aside that a nuclear plant does not burn coal or other hydrocarbon fuels. And the stupidly called "fossil fuels" - as if fossils, which are former living things, dead, buried and turned to stone, could ever be used as a fuel!
You are correct re “fossil fuels,” but it is almost a religion to some. It is petroleum, plain and simple.
Yeah, that's what got me as well, although, as usual, I didn't think of that until later. Don't think it would have made much difference to her though.
She also went to some Jesse Jackson rally (she's white) and said that when a guy came around asking for donations to Jesse, she chipped in her last $20. I asked her how did she know it was for Jesse and not just some dude milking the crowd. A look of "I've been had!" came over her but she didn't say anything.