Possibly, yes, but there are barriers to that. The Obama administration offered 4 government-guaranteed loans to entice companies to build power plants. Not one company took up the opportunity.I agree: nuclear power across the board.
Why would they? The NIMBY and BANANA idiots will stonewall it for decades, and they know it.
Most nuclear power plants are a long way from town. After 3 Mile Island, people are quite rightly worried about nuclear power plants in their back yards. There are studies coming out of Europe showing increased cases of childhood lukemia in children living withint 5 kilometers of a nuclear plant.
A recent study in Ontario showed elevated rates of thyroid cancer and lukemia in adults living within 25 kilometers of Ontario's three nuclear power plants. Many people in the medical community criticized the study as having been "diluted" by using the 25 k radius, as opposed to the 5 k radius used in the European studies. I have an uncle who used to work at Darlington, who died young from cancer. A guy I was dating worked at Chalk River from the 1970's until he retired a few years ago. He's had 2 go-rounds with cancer. It should be part of the disclosure in your contract when you sign up as a nuclear engineer - you will die horribly of cancer.
Bullshit. The radiation level in the plant is barely (if any) above background and constantly monitored.
Sure it is. And nothing can go wrong, but there have been three major nuclear plant failures with catostrophic consequences, on three different continents. Chernoble was the worst because the Russians had such lax building standards for nuclear reactors, and corruption in communist countries being what it is, the place was an accident waiting to happen. Fukishima would seem to be the least damaging, except the radiation is affecting the entire Pacific Ocean, all the way to North America. I'm now buying Atlantic salmon as a result which makes me sad because wild BC salmon was the best!