Germany has struggled with a conflicted yet essential relationship with nuclear power from the start.
The concern is real: Senator Obama is opposed to doing anything new with nuclear power.
"If things go wrong with nuclear power, they go terribly terribly wrong, " he said.
Countries with nuclear power typically build large-scale reactors 15 to 20 km away from heavily populated residential areas.
The eight companies with nuclear power plants (working or under construction) are: Chubu Electric Power Company, Inc.
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One final note about nuclear power: Most of the problems with nuclear power are perceptional, not real at all.
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With 104 operating reactors, the United States produces more electricity with nuclear power than any of the 30 countries with that capability.
That is why, says Yasunari Fujimoto of Gensuikin, an anti-nuclear group that planned the event, the demonstrators' demand is not to do away with nuclear power immediately, even though his organisation favours that.
In the future, there might be a more complete solution: Cars that run on new fuels that don't emit greenhouse gases at all, such as hydrogen made with nuclear power, or cars that run on electricity that was generated with wind or solar power.
Apparently everyone from the New York Daily News to TV stations in Portland, Oregon has forgotten that nuclear weapons production from WWII and early in the Cold War has nothing to do with a nuclear power plant today.
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Japan is number two with 50 nuclear power stations in operation.
Did he secure any -- before announcing the nuclear reactor permits, did he secure any kind of concessions from the Republicans when he met them part of the way with this nuclear power initiative?
On nuclear power, however, there seems to be a big difference, with Ishihara supporting continuing nuclear power use, while Hashimoto has joined the anti-nuclear camp.
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With respect to nuclear power, similarly, we have to do it in a way that is safe and secure.
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More than 300 worried residents turned out to try to get answers, not from Exelon, the company wasn't invited, but from the federal and state agencies charged with overseeing the nuclear power plant.
The session is part of an inquiry into the future prospects for nuclear power in the UK, with subjects covering how any new power stations would be financed, and the attitudes of the public towards nuclear power.
Mr. Kan recalled that exchange with bemusement, saying nuclear power wasn't even part of that discussion.
Even 2, 500 weapons may seem unreachable for an emerging nuclear power with a few dozen weapons on hand.
But sceptics note that rich, single-minded Finland is over budget and behind schedule with its new nuclear-power plant.
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Do you agree or disagree with the construction of nuclear power plants?
France, after all, is a nuclear power with its permanent seat in the Security Council, while Germany is militarily puny and diplomatically still nervous.
As with all alternatives, nuclear power development should be held to very high safety standards and ability to compete in the marketplace solely on merit.
Meanwhile, whatever happens with nuclear energy, solar power remains the most dynamic, fastest-growing source of clean, renewable energy and, indeed, of any energy source.
In the long run Japan will also replace its shortfall of nuclear power with larger imports of gas, boosting the fortunes of countries like Brunei and Qatar.
The Sun reports a Health and Safety Executive inspector who was in India has lost a memory stick with details of a nuclear power station in Hartlepool.
Germany hopes to replace nuclear power with renewable energy.
Building new passive houses and renovating existing buildings to passive-house standards are tiny steps in Germany's daunting challenge to cut energy consumption as it seeks to replace nuclear power with renewable energy.
In particular, Green candidates will highlight control of GM food and GM crops planted against local will, the failure of energy policy to get to grips with climate change, nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
Having made a policy decision to replace nuclear power with other sources of energy in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, we believe that Japan will opt for LNG as one of the alternative sources.
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