U.S. Nuclear Power Survival Part 2

摘要

The Washington D.C.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) recently released a paper on the economic and national security imperatives that should compel lawmakers to enable the U.S. nuclear industry to be more competitive in the global nuclear energy arena and thereby maintain a crucial leadership role. In Restoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy, the CSIS explains how state and federal mandates for renewable energy have created market distortions in the electricity sector. Combined with sustained low natural gas prices, direct and indirect renewable subsidies have made nuclear power uneconomic. In addition to current economic disadvantages, the other major challenges to U.S.