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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Earthquake and Hurricane Irene Impact U.S. Nuclear Power Industry

Earthquake and Hurricane Irene Impact U.S. Nuclear Power Industry

Since the 11 March Fukushima nuclear disaster, the global nuclear industry has been mounting an aggressive PR campaign to convince an increasingly skeptical public that not only is nuclear energy safe, it has a number of benefits, such as zero carbon dioxide emissions.

The center of the global nuclear industry is the United States, where the first civilian nuclear power plants for generating electricity were built and which now operates 104 commercial reactors, producing roughly 20 percent of the nation’s electricity.  Until Fukushima, nuclear power advocates saw a potential renaissance of the industry – besides arguing the global warming
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