8/17/07

Faux Renaissance: Global Warming, Radioactive Waste Disposal, and the Nuclear Future

Arms Control Association: Arms Control Today: Faux Renaissance: Global Warming, Radioactive Waste Disposal, and the Nuclear Future: " A. Feiveson Over the past 20 years, there has been little or no net growth in installed nuclear capacity in much of the world with the exception of Asia, where there has been some limited new nuclear construction. Many energy analysts now expect, however, a dramatic nuclear renaissance, provoked in part by anxieties over global warming and claims that nuclear power can play a substantial role in easing these concerns."