Japan’s Nuclear Emergency and the Future of Nuclear Power
March 15th, 2011As the scale of Japan’s nuclear emergency emerges, experts in Japan and the United States say the country now faces many problems with its crippled reactors and they worry that radioactive releases of steam could go on for weeks or even months. To be sure, the uncertainties make any solid assessment impossible, but already Japan’s nuclear crisis seems like a serious setback for humanity’s attempt to reduce, quickly and decisively, greenhouse gas emissions in electricity generation.
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