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Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise

Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise

Full Title:  Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise
Author(s):  Michael Wallace and Sarah Williams
Publisher(s):  Global Forecast 2012
Publication Date: January 1, 2012
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Description (excerpt):

America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, new safety and security requirements, failure to resolve the waste issue and other factors are hastening the day when existing reactors become uneconomic, making it virtually impossible to build new ones.

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