The Murky Future of Nuclear Power in the United States
This was supposed to be America’s nuclear century.
The
Three Mile Island meltdown was two generations ago. Since then,
engineers had developed innovative designs to avoid the kinds of
failures that devastated Fukushima in Japan. The United States
government was earmarking billions of dollars for a new atomic age, in
part to help tame a warming global climate.
But a remarkable confluence of events is bringing that to an end, capped in recent days by Toshiba’s
decision to take a $6 billion loss and pull Westinghouse, its American
nuclear power subsidiary, out of the construction business.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/business/energy-environment/nuclear-power-westinghouse-toshiba.html?_r=0
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