The Beginning of the Nuclear Renaissance Will Not be Televised

The Beginning of the Nuclear Renaissance Will Not be Televised

from OilPrice.com Daily News Update by ferd@oilprice.com (Ferdinand E. Banks)

According to the United Nations energy organization (IAEA), statistics indicate that for 2009 and 2010, nuclear reactors in Sweden and Germany managed by the Swedish firm Vattenfall  had the lowest capacity factors in the (nuclear) world.  Fifty-five percent was the figure given by that organization for the average availability of Swedish equipment, which is very different from the up-beat impression I attempt to provide of Swedish nuclear efforts in my forthcoming energy economics textbook (2011).
‘My goodness, but how the mighty have fallen”, to paraphrase an observation by a high ranking German officer in Theodor Plievier’s brilliant war novel Stalingrad (1949).
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