The Swiss phase out raises more doubts about the future of the nuclear power industry.
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Not just for the nuclear power industry, but for our society as a whole.
Last week, the Brazilian senate passed a measure that grants fiscal incentives to the nuclear power industry.
The nuclear power industry is also flourishing in South Korea, which could add as many as ten plants by 2010.
Jack Wakeland, an engineer employed in the nuclear power industry, expanded on Ignatius's revelation at The Intellectual Activist Web site.
As gwkimball pointed out, Rickover and his team helped to build the Shippingport and to develop the very early nuclear power industry.
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Yet the nuclear fleet projected American power to the far corners of the globe and laid the groundwork for a domestic nuclear power industry.
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But he acknowledged that the long-dormant nuclear power industry faces not only technical but political hurdles -- particularly over how to dispose of nuclear waste.
Critics of the nuclear power industry say the plant is unsafe to operate at any power level and should be shut down permanently and dismantled.
Germany's nuclear power industry, moreover, employs hundreds of thousands of people.
He went on to work as a journalist on a local newspaper before taking up a post as a press officer in the nuclear power industry.
In SuperFuel I noted that the nuclear power industry has a generational problem: most of the leading executives in the industry are now in their 60s.
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It is a measure of the desperation of the U.S. nuclear power industry that it is willing to risk its seed corn on so uncertain a venture.
But, of course, the Iranian leaders say they're not after nuclear weapons, they're after nuclear technology for peaceful purposes, and they want to develop a nuclear power industry.
Following the 1979 near-meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the nuclear power industry suddenly had all the appeal of Dr. Strangelove in his doomsday bunker.
Following the 1979 near meltdown of a reactor at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island, the nuclear power industry suddenly had all the appeal of Dr. Strangelove in his doomsday bunker.
Continuing subsidies to the nuclear power industry.
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The Japanese nuclear power industry needs a good dose of cleansing sunlight, and as we weigh our own energy portfolio we need to ensure we ground any energy industry in a strong culture of transparency, accountability, and safety.
The long-term impact on the nuclear power industry is yet to be seen, but what is clear is that natural disasters like the earthquake and tsunami in Japan have profound effects on governments and on businesses, directly or indirectly.
That event propelled the movie into a box office hit, and the coincidence of a well-made fictional film with a real-life event with a very similar plot line led to a huge increase of public fears around the safety of nuclear power, and likely set the nuclear power industry back by decades.
It has moved speedily to revive the nuclear-power industry, by contrast.
But handing out public money to the nuclear-power industry (through production or investment tax credits, for example) is an inefficient way for governments to discourage global warming.
Yet the German government, for one, has been reluctant to spend money on reactors to burn Russian plutonium at a time when it aims to wind down Germany's own nuclear-power industry.
The Japanese nuclear accident has come at a delicate time for the nuclear-power industry, growing globally, for the first time in decades as a new generation of "passive" designs is being embraced as offering more safety.
Appearing alongside his two rivals on the BBC News Channel, Lord Elis-Thomas underlined his support for nuclear power - an industry that employs 600 people at a decommissioning site in his Dwyfor Meirionnydd constituency.
The damage done to Japanese nuclear facilities has given new ammunition to critics of nuclear power, just as the industry and many of its supporters in Washington were hoping for a revival of U.S. nuclear power as an alternative to coal-fired electricity generation.
Enthusiasm for spreading reactors among new nations should remind us that the Shah of Iran's nuclear-power program was featured in 1970s nuclear-industry advertisements.
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Opponents point to the enormous cost of building a nuclear power plant and question whether the industry is economically viable without taxpayers footing much of the bill.
Such decisions would nevertheless reflect a view shared by many, both from within the industry and among nuclear power opponents, namely that old nuclear power stations are considerably less safe - or more dangerous - than new ones.
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