Due to the country's desire to enhance its energy security, Japan has developed
a large nuclear power industry.
Not exact matches
Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired
power plants, oil refineries, petrochemical plants,
nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators,
large livestock farms (dairy cows, pigs, poultry, etc.), PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy
industry.
Principal stationary pollution sources include chemical plants, coal - fired
power plants, oil refineries,
nuclear waste disposal activity, incinerators,
large animal farms, PVC factories, metals production factories, plastics factories, and other heavy
industry.
As Petr Beckmann once said, these people don't just want to destroy the
nuclear power industry, they want to destroy all
large - scale
power generation
industries.
And they can't forget Forbes» 1985 denunciation of
nuclear power as
industry's «
largest managerial disaster.»
I am aware of people making the argument that the big push by the
nuclear industry for enormous government subsidies to find a massive expansion of
nuclear power on the basis that
nuclear power is «THE ANSWER» to global warming is a fraud that dishonestly and cynically takes advantage of growing concern about the very real problem of global warming, and I make that argument myself (because even a quite
large expansion of
nuclear electricity generation would have little effect on overall GHG emissions, at great cost, taking too long to achieve even that little effect, while misdirecting resources that could more effectively be applied elsewhere).