NUCLEAR POWER'S MISSING FUEL

摘要

NUCLEAR POWER IS hot. Sixteen utilities have expressed intentions to build up to 25 new reactors across the U.S. Just last month, NRG Energy Inc. in Princeton, N.J., unveiled plans to invest 5.2 billion dollars in two new reactors at an existing atomic plant near Houston. It's a nuclear renaissance, right? Not yet. While smart money is placing multi-billion-dollar bets on ethanol, wind power, and solar, it's not throwing buckets of cash at nukes. "The real obstacle isn't the Sierra Club but the 28-year-old analysts on Wall Street," says Bob Simon, Democratic staff director of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.