Experts: U.S. Nuclear Industry Was in Trouble Before Fukushima and Now is Stalled in Terms of New Growth

PR Newswire

WASHINGTON, June 9, 2011

Only Limited Government-Guaranteed Reactors Already Underway Seen Possibly Advancing in the Short Term, As Low Gas Prices, Tighter Safety Regulation and Skyrocketing Reactor Costs Effectively Doom Further Industry Expansion.
WASHINGTON, June 9, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Even as Germany, Japan, Switzerland and other nations move to abandon existing and planned nuclear reactors, the United States is on a path to see at best only a small handful of already planned, government-backed reactor projects proceed, a group of experts said today.