To support more clean energy production, the Obama government has been seeking billions of dollars in government loan guarantees to build new centers.Presently, about twenty percent of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear energy.But critics say nuclear power is too costly and dangerous to be worth further expansion.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would close all seven nuclear power centers for a moment while energy policy is reconsidered.The European Union is planning to test all centers in its twentyseven member nations.
Developing nations are less willing to slow nuclear expansion.China said it would continue with plans to build about twentyfive new nuclear plants.And India, under a cooperation agreement with the United States, plans to spend billions on new centers in the coming years.
Japan has made nuclear energy a national priority since the 1970s.Unlike many major economies, Japan imports eighty percent of its energy.The Nuclear Energy Institute says twentynine percent of Japan’s electricity came from nuclear sources in 2009.The government planned to increase that to forty percent by 2017.
Nuclear plants supply fourteen percent of global electricity.Nuclear energy is a clean resource, producing no carbon gases.But radioactive waste is a serious unresolved(未解决的) issue.So_is_the_presence_of_nuclear_power_centers_in_earthquake_areas_like_the_one_near_Bushehr,_Iran.
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