Leaders of the Atlanta Tea Party are challenging Southern Co. subsidiary Georgia Power over the monopoly's reluctance to increase its use of solar power, the ballooning costs of building a new nuclear power plant and even its legal right to monopoly status.
She is betting big on the U.S. Areva is building a nuclear power plant component factory with Northrup Grumman in Virginia.
Russia now wants new inspection rules in place before delivering nuclear fuel to the power plant it is building at Bushehr, on the Persian Gulf.
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.
The Baltic states and Poland are also working on building a new nuclear power plant in Lithuania.
Monday, Japan time, another building at the Fukushima nuclear power plant housing the No. 3 exploded.
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The Russians are already building, nearly completed, a nuclear power plant in Iran.
Russia's nuclear power equipment and service export monopoly, Atomstroiexport, is building the plant under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency.
The bright yellow dome of the steel containment vessel at Unit 4, Fukushima Daiishi nuclear power plant (FDI) is clearly visible amid the pulverized remains of the building in a new video released by the Tokyo Electric Power Company.
FORBES: New Video From Fukushima Shows Containment Vessel Dome Amid Debris
Indeed, the economics are so tricky that other countries have resorted to straight subsidies (as in America) or else to complicated long-term financing deals involving big power-users (as in Finland, which is building Europe's first new nuclear plant for over a decade).
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