NUCLEAR POWER BACK IN FAVOR
Fossil fuel prices -- and particularly the price of natural gas, which fuels most recently-constructed power plants -- have soared in recent years, re-igniting interest in nuclear power with economists, legislators, and the general public, says James Taylor, managing editor of Environment & Climate News.
In response, General Electric and Hitachi have recently announced a joint venture to build two nuclear power plants in Texas, which would be the first commissioned in the United States since 1978. Click Here to read more.
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Audeen Fentiman
Associate Dean of Engineering for Graduate Education and Interdisciplinary Programs,
Professor of Nuclear Engineering
fentiman@purdue.edu
765.494.1870
Ahmed Hassanein
Professor of Nuclear Engineering
hassanein@purdue.edu
765.494.5739
