NEI Magazine: Nuclear decline set to continue, says report

[bananas]

Nuclear decline set to continue, says report
27 August 2009

Nuclear will continue to decline according to a new report. At this point there is no obvious sign that the international nuclear industry could turn the decline into a promising future, it says.

"The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2009" by independent consultant, Mycle Schneider, professor for energy policy Steve Thomas, consultant Antony Froggatt and Doug Koplow, was released on 27 August. Commissioned by the German federal ministry of environment, nature conservation and reactor safety, it gives facts on the nuclear power plants in operation, under construction and in planning phases throughout the world. It also assesses the economic performance of past and current nuclear projects including Calvert Cliffs, Flamanville and Olkiluoto.

The report says that there seems to be a “widening gap” between the industrial reality with its current trends and the "perception of some sort of nuclear renaissance”.

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The 2.5MB pdf can be downloaded from http://www.neimagazine.com/journals/Power/NEI/September_2009/attachments/090827MSC-NuclearStatusReport2009-EN.pdf
or from http://www.bmu.de/english/nuclear_safety/downloads/doc/44832.php

[madokie]

1. That very well may be true

but one must not let down their guard. Most people thought that after TMI and chernobyl that it was clear to see that the industry carried too much baggage only to see them try to resurrect themselves later, like now here in the usa.

From your link, pg 7:
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Lack of a trained workforce and massive loss of competence are probably the most
difficult challenges for proponents of nuclear expansion to overcome. Even France, the
country with perhaps the strongest base of civilian nuclear competence, is threatened by a
severe shortage of skilled workers. Demographics are a big cause: a large number of
"baby-boomers" are approaching retirement — about 40% of the nuclear staff of the
world’s largest nuclear utility EDF by 2015. Currently, a maximum of 300 nuclear
graduates are available for some 1,200 to 1,500 open positions. An additional difficulty
stems from the fact that the number of nuclear graduates does not correspond at all to the
availability of new recruits for the nuclear industry. In the USA for example only about
one quarter of the 2008 nuclear graduates planned to actually work in the industry or a
nuclear utility. Many prefer either to continue their studies or to join the military or other
government and business sectors.
The situation is similar or worse in most of the other nuclear countries.

[NNadir]

2. Let me guess geniuses....

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/international/iealf/table27.xls">2660 < 2639 < 684.34?

The last figure, 684.34 billion kilowatt-hours represents the figure for 1980, when the gas salesman Amory Lovins reported, that NUCLEAR POWER IS DEAD.

It is appalling by the way to see an anti-science fundie comment on the destruction of nuclear science education by dumb fundies who think that Harrisburg and Kiev were wiped out, and are so fucking bad numbers that they care not a whit for http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/countryprofilesebd.xls">the 40 to 50 million people who have likely died in those 29 years from air pollution.

The destruction of nuclear science education by dumb fundies who know no nuclear science is comparable to having Pat Robertson destroy genetic science and then cheer about it.

You can't be an anti-nuke if you can compare numbers, or open a science book.

Nuclear energy need not be perfect to be vastly better than all the stuff dumb anti-science anti-nukes couldn't care less about. It merely needs to be vastly better than everything else, which it is.

[Javaman]

3. You forgot to call us all fundies.

man, you disappointed me, I look so forward to your crazy screeches.