Global expansion of nuclear power may draw more scrutiny and skepticism as the world watches Japan struggle to prevent a meltdown.
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In Japan’s earthquake-triggered nuclear emergency, at least 200,000 people who live within 21 kilometers of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station outside Tokyo have been removed from their homes — residents who are already victims of the worst earthquake to hit Japan since records were kept.
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David Crane is CEO of NRG Energy, a Fortune 500 electricity producer based in Princeton, New Jersey. NRG has something of a split personality. On the one hand, with its heavy reliance on burning coal to generate electricity, it remains among the dirtiest power companies in the country, as measured by CO2 emissions. Yet it also aspires to a leadership role in the power industry’s long march to …
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Fears of a nuclear meltdown in Japan triggered a global sell-off of shares Tuesday, with oil prices falling on concerns of a far-reaching industrial shutdown in the world’s third biggest economy.
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