London: SolarWorld chief executive Frank Asbeck has seized on Japan's nuclear crisis as a competitive advantage for PV - and so far, investors are inclined to agree. Rather than adopting a wait-and-see approach towards Japanese events, as many renewables executives have done, Asbeck has lashed out at the nuclear industry..

The "disaster of biblical proportions" in Fukushima demonstrates once and for all that "cheap, clean and safe nuclear power is an illusion", he argues.

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