The Swiss phase out raises more doubts about the future of the nuclear power industry.
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In fact, the entire Japanese nuclear power industry may suffer from a transparency and accountability deficiency.
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.
Helping business includes some direct grants supporting Britain's bankrupt nuclear power industry, for example.
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.
Might this event be the catalyst that kills the nuclear power industry?
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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The offer includes a steady supply of nuclear fuel for a civilian nuclear power industry, additional nuclear reactors and investment in Iran's aging oil and gas industry.
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.
The administration also wants to encourage the growth of the nuclear power industry and exploration of new stores of coal, oil and natural gas -- notably in the now off-limits Arctic National Wildlife refuge.
Seoul has been pushing for a green light to enrich uranium and reprocess spent nuclear-reactor fuel to develop its nuclear power industry, but Washington has been opposed out of concern it could spur nuclear weapons proliferation.
The Clinton Administration's party line -- and that of others with an interest in having the U.S. nuclear power industry make sales to Communist China -- is that Beijing has made "real progress" on all these scores.
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.
The operator (TEPCO), the regulatory bodies (NISA and NSC) and the government body promoting the nuclear power industry (METI), all failed to correctly develop the most basic safety requirements such as assessing the probability of damage, preparing for containing collateral damage from such a disaster, and developing evacuation plans for the public in the case of a serious radiation release.
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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.
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