More than three dozen nuclear reactors in the United States are at risk of early retirement, claims an American researcher. The warning follows the news a number of US reactors are closing before the end of their shelf life including California’s San Onofre reactor (pictured). Mark Cooper, senior fellow for economic analysis at Vermont Law […]

The ‘nuclear renaissance’ which has been touted over the last decade was faltering even before the disaster at Fukushima, claims an American academic. Mark Cooper, a senior fellow at Vermont Law School’s Institute for Energy and the Environment suggests in his latest paper that high costs were off-putting and the disaster in Japan earlier this […]