Against the Current in Nuclear Energy

IPS reported despite the nuclear disaster in Japan, Argentina’s current capacity for nuclear plants have been strengthend and nuclear reactors are being built.

The market news is quoted as saying:

Germany announced that it would start shutting down its nuclear power programme; Switzerland will make a ban on nuclear reactors permanent; and more than 94 percent of voters in a referendum in Italy rejected the government’s plans to restart the nuclear programme abandoned in the late 1980s.

But that is far from happening in Argentina. The government of Cristina Fernández signed contracts in late August to extend the useful life of one of the country’s two nuclear plants, announced that a third plant is about to start operating, and said a fourth reactor would be built by 2020.

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