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nuclear power are considerably exaggerated. In my view, nuclear power
will survive today and expand tomorrow.
It is true that the Chernobyl accident has had a strong impact on
public opinion in many countries, and that it led some governments to
postpone orders for new plants for the present. But while it has also
led some political parties which are in opposition to add nuclear power
to the list of things they oppose, it has largely failed to persuade
political parties in office to abandon their support for nuclear power.
Only a few days after the Chernobyl accident, the neads of state
and government of the biggest market economy countries, meeting in Tokyo,
voiced their conviction that "nuclear power, properly managed, would
continue to produce an increasing share of the world's electricity".
the Soviet leader, Mr. Gorbachev, declared that ne could not imagine a
future world economy without nuclear power.
And
Only through a report country by country can I give an accurate
picture.
Some European countries which have no nuclear power plants
as Ireland, Denmark and Austria
such
seem now rather actively to oppose
nuclear plants even in other countries. In others, like Finland, the
Netherlands, Yugoslavia, Switzerland and Italy, there is a de facto
moratorium on new orders. In Sweden, a decision to phase out nuclear
power by the year 2010 was taken in the wake of the Three Mile Island
accident, but there is now discussion about beginning the phase-out in
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