It will take a new generation of scientists and technologists to spark a revival in nuclear power technology.
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At the same time, Japan can and should continue to develop nuclear power technology and safety and actively export its technology to overseas markets.
North Korea signed an agreement in 1994 with the U.S. to curtail its nuclear bomb ambitions in return for a reduction in trade and investment barriers and for nuclear power technology.
Nuclear power is a proven technology that that was stopped by government over regulation and environmentalists.
The latter proved a somewhat astonishing reminder of forgotten lessons about nuclear power risks, unique to that technology: A failure of one power plant in an isolated location can create a contagion in countries far away, and even where somewhat different variants of that technology are in use.
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But just as we all agree on the need to prevent a nuclear disaster, we also agree on the benefits of nuclear technology and peaceful nuclear power, what it can do to bring the world -- if properly managed and protected -- to a better place.
We will deepen our ongoing cooperation in frontier areas of science and technology, nuclear power, and space.
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That's going to finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy in America -- legislation that will make the best use of resources we have in abundance, through clean coal technology, safe nuclear power, sustainably grown biofuels, and energy we harness from the wind, waves, and sun.
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France generates 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear, and its state-owned firms are world leaders: Paris-based EDF is the largest operator of nuclear power plants worldwide, while Areva is the largest provider of nuclear services and technology.
In August, Bush signed an energy bill laden with special business-tax breaks for new nuclear power facilities, "clean coal" technology, coal mined from Native American lands, refinery expansion, fuel-cell power plants, hydrogen refueling stations and for producers of energy-efficient appliances, commercial buildings and homes.
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.
From the Bush White House, they're talking about large-scale technology: oil and gas, nuclear power plants and clean coal research, which will cost billions of dollars and will take years.
They also say it could have been the U.S. and U.K. Yet, it could also be a host of other countries who do not want to see Iran enrich uranium for nuclear power because of fears it could eventually use that technology to build a nuclear weapon.
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That all-of-the-above approach includes many things that the President talked about on the campaign trail extensively -- investments in renewable energy, investments in biofuels, investments in nuclear technology including the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the United States in 30 years, and including expanded domestic oil and gas production.
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America, which leads the world in installed nuclear power, may lead the world in turning away from the technology, too.
India has been working on thorium for some years, but the technology is as different from today's nuclear power as gas is from coal, and very few nuclear engineers even hear about liquid fuel during their training, let alone get to work on it.
Thus it might prove more expedient to invest in this at least tried technology, which could extend the useful lifetime of nuclear power by hundreds of years.
Although about half of Sweden's power comes from reactors, it has never been at ease with nuclear technology.
This is very complex and untested technology compared, say, to coal- and gas-fired or nuclear power plants.
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It has helped build the Iranians a nuclear power plant at Bushehr which will, inevitably, contribute to Tehran's weapons program, if only through technology transfers, training and political cover.
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