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Nuclear power is set to disappoint, again
Nuclear power is set to disappoint, again
By John Kemp Tue Jan 21, 2014
(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.
PEAKING OIL...
...Hubbert...
<snip>
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate scientists are now revisiting many of the same arguments in favour of nuclear as a way to avert global warming....Hansen...
<snip>
HOSTILE REACTION...
...NRDC...
<snip>
TROUBLED TECHNOLOGY...
...economics...
...Hansen, like Hubbert...
By John Kemp Tue Jan 21, 2014
(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.
PEAKING OIL...
...Hubbert...
<snip>
CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate scientists are now revisiting many of the same arguments in favour of nuclear as a way to avert global warming....Hansen...
<snip>
HOSTILE REACTION...
...NRDC...
<snip>
TROUBLED TECHNOLOGY...
...economics...
...Hansen, like Hubbert...
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/01/21/nuclear-power-climate-change-idINL5N0KV1V620140121