Restoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy
| By: | States, The CSIS Commission on Nuclear Energy Policy in the United |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury USA |
| Print ISBN: | 9781442225114 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781442225114 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, failure to find a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste, reactions to the Fukushima accident in Japan, and other factors are hastening the day when existing U.S. reactors become uneconomic. The decline of the U.S. nuclear energy industry could be much more rapid than policy makers and stakeholders anticipate.