From various sources, including WNN, AP, and other sources.
Nuclear continues to expand as if Fukushima never happened. Well not quite. But close. Despite rumors of it's demise, mostly by American anti-nuclear activists, nuclear is going quite strong with plans in effect to expand existing generation facilities or start new ones from countries that never had more than a small R&D reactor(s) or none at all.
It's imperative for anti-nuclear activists not to rest on their butts but to understand the actual state of the technology as it is being deployed globally. This previous sentence might sound like it's coming as a warning from an anti-nuclear activist. I am not anti-nuclear but I like to carry out discussions based on 'what is' and not what some project they would like it to be. Most, and I mean the many, many on the DK, and other US anti-nuclear sites wear rose-colored glasses with quite large side-blinders on as if what goes on in the US or Germany or Japan is the actual 'state of the nuclear industry'. It is not. And all of you better wise up.
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