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Nuclear power flashes light at tunnel end

February 20, 2008

Nuclear power flashes light at tunnel end

It seems that nuclear power is gaining ground on the energy market, or so the report of a “London-based World Energy Council” maintains. James Kanter, writes on a Business of Green blog, how Europe seems to be investing its hopes into the fission reactors.

“Nuclear energy technology, its proponents say, already works and can supply a huge base load of power to keep national grids supplied,” Mr. Kanter writes. “By contrast, renewable sources of power like wind and solar are intermittent and less able — at least for the moment — to deliver the quantity of electricity needed to drive modern, industrial nations.”

Yet, the author writes, “[t]he question of how developed economies will keep the lights on without burning more fossil fuels seems unlikely to go away anytime soon.”

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