U.S. must increase nuclear power-Energy Minister

LONDON, Sept 4 (Reuters) – The United States needs to start generating more of its power from nuclear energy, but will still have to rely on coal and oil for the foreseeable future, the U.S. Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy said on Thursday.

Dennis Spurgeon told a nuclear energy industry conference in London that the era of cheap oil was over and action was needed to tackle an “energy crisis” facing the United States.

The country was “on the cusp of a transformation” in the way it produces energy and the time to start reducing its dependence on fossil fuels was coming, Spurgeon told the opening session of the World Nuclear Association’s annual symposium.

Spurgeon said there was no country more addicted to the use of fossil fuels than the U.S., and Washington had been “somewhat slow” to react to the need for change.

Reuters UK