Nuclear Power’s Death Somewhat Exaggerated

Reposted from: New York Times 4/11/12

NUCLEAR energy is going through an odd patch. It refuses to die, but it does not prosper.

This is how modest the nuclear industry’s prospects now look: Senator Lamar Alexander, a Tennessee Republican who has called for building 100 reactors in the next few years, told a conference of industry specialists in late March that the long-ballyhooed “nuclear renaissance” did not really exist anymore. Now, he said, it is an “awakening to the awareness of nuclear.”

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