NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY

October 12, 2018

Since the 1950’s, the 440 nuclear power reactors worldwide have amassed in excess of 15,000 ‘reactor-years of operational experience’.4 However, after the Fukushima disaster five years ago where a Japanese earthquake triggered a tsunami that destroyed four nuclear reactors, the nuclear industry’s safety was brought into question.5 Each country began ensuring that safety checks were taking place on all nuclear reactors and a minority of countries even began decommissioning theirs. However, others have begun scaling up their nuclear outputs again and countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Bangladesh have made their first move into the nuclear power industry.

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