Is the Nuclear Renaissance Fizzling? - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
The only way to have a nuclear renaissance is using fast-breeder reactors to produce plutonium, which, with proper breeding, use all the energy in the uranium. But this is weapons-grade stuff, so there are some proliferations concerns. … In 2008, the first time in civil nuclear history, no new nuclear reactor was connected to the grid, while three units were shut down. The installed nuclear capacity declined by about 1600 MW, the size of the EPR in Finland that has been …
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