December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
17h 25m
English
Eliot Marshal
‘Nuclear power faces stagnation and decline.’ So warned a group of scientists in a sweeping review published two years ago by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.1 Led by chemist John Deutch and physicist Ernest Moniz, both of MIT, the study concluded that nuclear power was in trouble and deserved a helping hand from government. Despite high construction costs, the authors argued that the United States should triple the number of unclear power plants by mid-century because they can deliver electricity without emitting green-house gases such as carbon dioxide (C02). The MIT group proposed a hefty tax on carbon emission to help get this cleaner energy source ...
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