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The nuclear dream- the eternal disappointment

COLUMN-Nuclear power is set to disappoint, again: Kemp By John Kemp Jan 21 (Reuters) – Nuclear power is the energy dream that refuses to die, despite serious accidents at Windscale (1957), Three Mile Island (1979), Chernobyl (1986) and Fukushima (2011).

Many of the arguments that were employed in favour of nuclear in the 1950s and 1960s as a solution to oil supplies running out are now being resurrected in favour of nuclear as a solution to climate change.

But the promise of safe, clean and reasonably priced nuclear power seems as far away now as it was 60 years ago. We are still waiting for the safe, cheap and reliable reactor designs that were promised in 1956…

January 22, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized