Nuclear cleanup company exec: Crisis will slow nuclear growth

[kristopher]

Crisis will slow nuclear growth: CH2M Hill
Bloomberg

The Fukushima nuclear disaster will slow the growth of global nuclear energy supply, and its share of total electricity production will shrink in coming years, CH2M Hill said.

"Nuclear brings out emotional responses," said Lee McIntire, chief executive officer of CH2M, the closely held company involved in cleaning up some U.S. nuclear weapons facilities. "Nuclear will still be a big part of the world's energy supply, but it won't grow as fast as everything else, so the percentage share will go down."

Governments around the world have called for inspections of existing nuclear sites, while Germany aims to exit atomic energy by 2022 in response to the Fukushima crisis.

Nuclear generates about 14 percent of the world's electricity, McIntire said Tuesday in an interview in Singapore.

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[Fumesucker]

1. This dweeb has an unbreakable grasp on the blatantly obvious.. n/t

[Marblehead]

2. Death and destruction

I always have an emotional response to.