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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Nuclear industry losing its glow. Should government step in?

Nuclear industry losing its glow. Should government step in?

Vermont Yankee is the latest merchant nuclear power plant to close in the face of competition from cheap natural gas. With roughly 30 percent of America's carbon-free power coming from the troubled merchant nuclear sector, the fight against warming will suffer for at least a decade.


http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Energy-Voices/2015/0120/Nuclear-industry-losing-its-glow.-Should-government-step-in

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