Is this the end of the nuclear renaissance? The tragic events in Japan have certainly raised some awkward questions about the industry. Explosions, radiation leaks and mass evacuations around Fukushima Daiichi and other plants have reminded the world of the dangers of atomic power.
This crisis comes 25 years after the Chernobyl disaster, but that is where any similarity ends. The accident in Ukraine, after all, was largely blamed on the secrecy and inefficiencies that were inherent in the Soviet political system.
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