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Keys to Lowering Reactor Costs: Advanced Materials

Posted on May 22, 2008

The cost inflation that is effecting the price of all new electrical generating facilities all over the world is a matter of serious concern. If we assume that anthropogenic global warming is going to require the replacement of virtually every carbon based energy source in the world with a carbon-free energy sources that means that most of the world's generating capacity must be replaced during the next 40 years. The last thing that we need right now is run away inflation of new generator costs. Advocates of renewable energy must face the same inflationary prospects as advocates of nuclear ...

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