![]() In recent years the Russian Federation has proposed building a long-term storage site that would accept spent nuclear fuel from many nations. ![]() Recently the nuclear energy drama has been raised again with particular intensity in the former Soviet Union. Yet nuclear energy technology is still not significantly more cost effective than traditional energy sources, and its implementation produces hazardous wastes that to this day have not found a permanent storage facility anywhere in the world. Unlike coal and petroleum, nuclear energy produces no atmospheric waste gases, which are widely regarded today as a major cause of global warming. Nuclear energy has always been both an extremely promising and problematic technology. Fuel reprocessing, new reactor designs, and talk of international control of atomic energy are the focus of political leaders and scientists as fossil fuel costs escalate and nuclear weapons materials proliferate across the globe. Nuclear energy as an alternative to fossil fuels is once again the topic of international political and scientific discussions. ![]() ![]() Home > Programs > Strategic Security > Nuclear Information Project > Nuclear Power and Fuel Cycle The Nuclear Dilemma and Lessons from Chernobyl ![]()
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