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Thursday, September 6, 2012

French Nuclear "Incident" Raises Concerns

French Nuclear "Incident" Raises Concerns

In the 1960s, as the U.S. “Atoms for Peace” program got into full swing, promoting civilian nuclear electricity propagation, no European country bought into the concept more deeply than France.Seduced by the concept of electricity “too cheap to measure,” France began developing a massive nuclear energy program with minimal public debate after the first oil crisis in 1974 and continued to support nuclear power even after the 1986 Soviet Chernobyl disaster. The March 2011 debacle at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/French-Nuclear-Incident-Raises-Concerns.html

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