Nuclear power is responsible for only 10% of the world’s energy production in lieu of the ill effects of the Fukushima disaster. The number of nuclear reactors has come down from 429 in 2010 to 412 at the end of last year but energy generation increased from 365 GW in 2010 to 367 GW in […]

The energy crisis has led the countries to take notice of their energy infrastructure. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the global energy supply chain has gone haywire. Several western countries have imposed sanctions on Russia and the country retaliated by threatening to cut oil and gas supplies to the UK. The UK solely relies […]

Toshiba’s Westinghouse nuclear division sold The nuclear equipment market which used to be dominated by the likes of GE, Toshiba, and Hitachi, is almost half dead with new nuclear power plants hardly being built anywhere in the world after the Fukushima incident. The rapid decline in costs of solar energy and wind energy has further dealt […]

Smart Policy for Nuclear Electric Power in India The Indian cabinet today approved a plan to build a massive 35 GW of nuclear power capacity using domestic nuclear technology and reactors. This is a very smart policy change as it will reduce the reliance on imported reactors and technology for building out India nuclear electric […]

Niti Aayog Needs To Take Note Niti Aayog which is the Indian central government think tank in charge of framing the country policies and development targets recently put out a statement pushing for an increase in the country nuclear power capacity, even as this technology has become obsolete and also has massively high tail risks. […]

Nuclear Energy is dying around the world as the high costs and the massive tail risks make it unfeasible in most countries. Many of the big contractors of nuclear equipment are going kaput as they are unable to get orders and even after they get orders face massive cost and time overruns. The two biggest […]