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Article: Risks and Realities: The "New Nuclear Energy Revival"
- Article from:
- Arms Control Today
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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CopyrightCopyright Arms Control Association May 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The headquarters of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) sits in the suburbs of Vienna, in the northeast corner of a country that has outlawed nuclear power plants since 1978. The irony of this situation masks deeper divisions in the nuclear energy debate, which recent assertions of a nuclear renaissance have papered over.
Concern about greenhouse gas emissions and energy security combined with forecasts of strong growth in electricity demand has awakened dormant interest in nuclear energy. Yet, the industry has not yet fully addressed the issues that have kept global nuclear energy capacity roughly the same for the last two decades. Although nuclear safety has improved ...