Thirty years after the meltdown of a flawed Soviet reactor in Ukraine and five years since the disaster at Japan’s tsunami-swamped Fukushima-1 plant, the global nuclear power industry remains in flux.
The heavily charged debate about whether it is safe, effective and economical to split atoms to generate electricity shows no sign of decay.
“We see a viable market out there emerging, particularly with the carbon constraints that everybody is facing. But it’s also more competitive than it’s ever been,” said J. Scott Peterson, vice president for communications at the Nuclear Energy Institute.
Ten nuclear reactors were connected to grids last year while …read more
Source: Voice of America
