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.