Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Nuclear renaissance? Failing industry is running flat out to stand still

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Sunday, January 31, 2016

Nuclear renaissance? Failing industry is running flat out to stand still

Click here to access article by Dr Jim Green from Ecologist (Britain).

Despite the ballyhoo over a nuclear powered future that we hear so frequently, Green has done a survey of many countries regarding construction of new plants and shutdowns of existing ones and concludes that it is more likely that nuclear power will be declining in the future.

Despite the endless rhetoric about a 'nuclear renaissance', there are fewer power reactors today than there were a decade ago, writes Jim Green. The one country with a really big nuclear build program is China, but no one expects it to meet its targets. And with over 200 reactor shut-downs due by 2040, the industry will have to run very hard indeed just to stay put.