Recent start-ups hardly provide much evidence of the vaunted “renaissance” in civilian nuclear power that promises reliable supplies of electricity without the pollution and greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuels, especially coal. Only two new nuclear plants began operation last year, one in Japan and the other in India. Since two reactors were shut down in 2009, it left the same number, 436, generating about 15 per cent of the world’s electricity in 31 economies.
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