After a cooling-off period that could be as long as 50 or more years, nuclear reactors and uranium enrichment facilities must be decommissioned. All waste must be reprocessed or stored, structures decontaminated, and the land, air and water...

The size and complexity of new nuclear power plant projects, the longterm nature of the construction phase and the uncertainty associated with costs create a high degree of credit stress on utilities. Plant cancellations are not entirely uncommon...

Over the five-decade-long history of building nuclear power plants, industry watchers assert that ‘there has consistently been a wide gap between the performance of existing nuclear plants and the performance forecast for new nuclear plants.

Public safety concerns around nuclear power necessitate high levels of regulation. From a risk perspective, this means that projects may be subject to delays and cost overruns as safety regulations are subject to changing and more stringent...

Nuclear power has always been a highly controversial issue.

Nuclear power plants have high capital costs and long construction times. Construction costs of nuclear plants completed during the 1980s and early 1990s in the United States and in most of Europe were much higher than predicted by the nuclear...

While nuclear power presents itself as the largest low carbon source, its potential role in carbon mitigation is very limited and is not worth taking, given all its risks and costs.