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Our Inexhaustible Energy Supply |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: Leonard J. Koch |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 10/1/1994 |
| Size: 2,524 Words, 15,849 Characters |
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Although nuclear power plants generate more than 20 percent of electricity in the United States and more than 70 percent of electricity in France, they have not displaced fossil-fuel power plants to the extent expected. This is due, at least in part, to the continued availability of oil and gas, acceptance of the combustion of coal, and public fear of plutonium and nuclear wastes. It should be noted that the very rapid growth of nuclear power in France was stimulated by the Suez Canal crisis in 1956, which demonstrated to the French that their oil supply was vulnerable.
Because fossil-fuel supplies are finite and concern about the environmental impact of combustion products is growing, another assessment of nuclear power should be made. It is essential that this be a long-range evalu...
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...ur coal reserves assure adequate supplies for the longer range (well beyond 100 years), it is not certain that increased levels of coal use, or even present levels, will be acceptable.
Because there is considerable uncertainty about the long-range availability or reliability of nonnuclear energy sources, it is imperative that the nuclear power option remain available.
--L.J.K.
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