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Let's face it... the alternatives are attractive, but not feasible

March 11, 2012 12:21 am | Updated December 04, 2021 11:42 pm IST Renewable energy sources are attractive but in a sense, powerless. It is high time they were convinced not to stall the growth of the advanced safe nuclear reactors or else the rising demand for energy will hinder our run to becoming a developed nation. There are proposals to create a global nuclear fuel company under the IAEA which will collect nuclear waste from reactors across the globe, reprocess it and then redistribute the fuel to those power plants. France is already 77% nuclear energy dependent, Belgium 58%, Sweden 45%, South Korea 40% and still counting. It is time for us to decide whether to let 1 GW of electricity release 19,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere or develop nuclear energy for an energy safe future.

The Hindu

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