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1.‘Nuclear power: A dream that failed’ , The Economist , 12 March 2012, on http://www.economist.com/node/21549936.
2.‘World Energy Council report details the limited impact of Fukushima on the global nuclear outlook’ , Press Release , London , 8 March 2012, on http://www.worldenergy.org/wec_news/news_archive/3862.asp. The full report is on http://www.worldenergy.org/documents/world_energy_perspective__nuclear_energy_one_year_after_fukushima_world_energy_council_march_2012_1.pdf.
3.On recent incidents of what are delicately termed ‘electricity shortfalls’ around the world, see
Sara Bryan Pasquier
, Saving electricity in a hurry – update 2011 , International Energy Agency , Paris , June 2011 , on http://www.iea.org/papers/2011/Saving_Electricity.pdf.
4.Blue Ribbon Commission on America's nuclear future , Report to the Secretary of Energy , Washington , DC , January 2012 , p ix, on http://brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/brc_finalreport_jan2012.pdf.
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Ibid, pp ix, 47, 48, 52. For a view on how the content of communications might win consent for nuclear waste disposal, see
James
Woudhuysen
Joe
Kaplinsky
, Energise! A future for energy innovation , Beautiful Books , 2009 , pp236 –8 . Prism, a new means of disposing of plutonium touched on at the conference by Danny Roderick, a senior vice president at GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, is covered in ‘Prism proposed for UK plutonium disposal’, World Nuclear News, 1 December 2011, on http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/WR-Prism_proposed_for_UK_plutonium_disposal-0112114.html?utm_source=World+Nuclear+News&utm_campaign=c3033bbc22-WNN_Weekly_29_November_5_December_201112_5_2011&utm_medium=email.
