«If public communication is not done properly, it would have a major negative impact on China's
future nuclear power development,» said Lin Boqiang, professor and director of the China Center for Energy Economics Research at Xiamen University.
Deepwater and all offshore drilling in the US has been set back for a generation, just as Three Mile Island set back
nuclear power development for decades.
But
nuclear power development has gone into a trough after Japan's Fukushima disaster.
It is noted that Iran's refusal to put
its nuclear power development under international supervision is giving impetus to a nuclear power race.