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What Nuclear Renaissance ?
By Christian Parenti
This article appeared in the May 12, 2008 edition of The Nation.
April 24, 2008
If you listen to the rhetoric, nuclear power is back. Smashing atoms will replace burning carbon-based coal, gas and oil. In the face of a disaster movie-like future of runaway climate change—bringing drought, floods, famine and social breakdown—carbon-free nukes are cast as the deus ex (...)