( By Carrington Dillon ) [Approx. Read Time: 2 minutes]
Keeping in-line with some of our recent news-posts. Here is a good article from the Wall Street Journal on the current International debate on Nuclear Power. Simply a short summary of current news on the debate, the article does the job in raising awareness about the current Nuclear Revival around the world. Here is a link to the article.
“In the U.S., nuclear power is the Republican Party’s battle horse when it comes to energy policy. Yesterday, for the umpteenth time, Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander called for the construction of 100 nuclear plants…
In the U.K., the British business lobby criticized the government for banking too much on renewable energy, especially wind power, and called for more government support for an already-incipient British nuclear revival. That prompted an immediate counterattack from clean-energy boosters. Their main argument? While renewable energy may require subsidies for the immediate future, nuclear power needs subsidies forever.
In Germany, a nuclear-plant snafu suddenly put the future of nuclear power back on the electoral agenda. The conservative ruling party, which is in favor of extending the lifetime of existing nuclear plants, faces strident anti-nuclear opposition ahead of the elections this fall.
In Spain, the future of nuclear power has caused fresh headaches for a prime minister vehemently opposed to atomic power. The Spanish government recently reached a Salomonic decision that has pleased exactly no one: It agreed to extend the life of its oldest nuclear power plant, but only by two years, rather than the 10 years the nuclear authorities recommended.
If it weren’t for Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s beach house antics, Italy’s official return to nuclear power this week might have garnered even more attention. As it is, one of Europe’s biggest economies—and most virulent opponents of nuclear power—is slated to break ground on new nuclear reactors in 2013.”
