Word: nuclearization
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...particular, Rowe said he strongly favored expansion of nuclear and energy efficiency technologies berating other utility companies’ unrelenting commitment to coal as “low-class...
Also, while in favor of renewable energy innovation, Rowe said the current prices of energy-per-kilowatt hour of wind and solar make them economically infeasible. Wind energy, currently the cheapest renewable energy source, is twice as expensive as nuclear energy. [SEE CLARIFICATION BELOW...
...It’s one thing to say abstractly that we favor nuclear or windmills, but it’s another thing to support it anywhere near you,” Rowe said. “We can’t afford this ‘not-in-my-backyard’ syndrome that Americans have been accustomed to.” —Staff writer Natasha S. Whitney can be reached at nwhitney@fas.harvard.edu. CLARIFICATION
...story, "Exelon Head Speaks on Energy," stated that wind energy is twice as expensive as nuclear energy. In fact, the speaker did not state that wind power costs twice as much to produce as nuclear power on a kilowatt-hour basis, but that wind energy costs twice as much as nuclear when considering the cost of abating a ton of carbon dioxide...
...world frets over an apparent collapse of an agreement to end North Korea's nuclear weapons program, another crisis may be unfolding in Asia's secretive Stalinist state: a worsening food shortage...