Europe Revisiting Nuclear Power

It’s the core question radiating across Europe today: How can governments fight global warming while continuing to meet their populations’ growing demands for energy? Facing few viable answers, Europe’s leaders are showing greater willingness to buck the trend toward environmental correctness and utter that politically unspeakable N-word: nuclear power.

Likewise in Germany, a nuclear power debate that seemed to have been put to rest long ago has rekindled. The nation has been decommissioning all of its 19 nuclear power plants with a goal of becoming nuclear-free by 2020. Now, however, the conservative government of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who took office in November, is indicating it wants nuclear power back.

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