by AREVA North America Blog
By Mike Rencheck, CEO, AREVA Inc.
Mike Rencheck, CEO, AREVA Inc.
The Tampa Tribune recently ran an
article
questioning the near-term need for new nuclear power. Unfortunately,
the article does little to provide readers with a balanced perspective
on the issues and opportunities facing utilities, and how they can
respond to their customers’ demands for a steadily increasing supply of
clean, reliable electricity.
By dismissing the strategic, long-term planning of utilities and
emphasizing the short-term view of nuclear energy opponents, the article
ends up championing the limited energy and environmental benefits of
continuing to burn fossil fuels for power, like natural gas and other
emitting sources. Most of today’s nuclear plants will operate for 60
years, providing long-term, safe, reliable, clean baseload electricity.
But this misstep did not go unnoticed. Nuclear blogger Rod Adams
succinctly addresses
the many ‘misconceptions’ contained in the article – not the least of
which are the challenges our nation will face if we succumb to the
historically blind notion that gas will always be inexpensive, and that
our nation’s economic future should rely on a single baseload source of
domestic energy.
http://us.arevablog.com/2013/01/24/daily-renewal-powers-up-nuclear-energy/
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