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Letter to John P. Holdren (Executive Office) from Experts Urging Nuclear Power

Letter to John P. Holdren (Executive Office) from Experts Urging Nuclear Power

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Author(s): J. Shanahan, et al.
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Publication Date: January 1, 2010
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We have two urgent recommendations.

First, we believe it‘s imperative to accelerate the licensing and building of slow neutron reactors, the kind now in use, commonly called thermal reactors or water-cooled reactors.

Second, we note that development of fourth-generation nuclear reactors will be needed if nuclear power is to expand significantly beyond its present market penetration — an expansion that is so necessary if our descendants are to have ample energy over the coming millennia.


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