If the Fukushima crisis causes expansion of the nuclear power industry outside Japan to slow, the effects will be felt most keenly in China, India and South Korea where, before the disaster, speedy and extensive construction had been planned. Conversely, in the United Kingdom and the United States, which have some of the oldest reactors still in operation, any intended 'renaissance' amounts to little more than replacing those plants that have already seen more than 40 years of service.
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