 After short presentations, panelists took questions from the audience for forty minutes. Near the end of the session, a European asked why France's Areva was considered an 'economic powerhouse' and a hot potential investment once it goes public, while it is often an investment to shy away from in the US. The responses about the economic viability of nuclear development led to some real fireworks on stage. References . .  .
Is nuclear power a growth industry? After short presentations, panelists took questions from the audience for forty minutes. Near the end of the session, a European asked why France's Areva was considered an 'economic powerhouse' and a hot potential investment once it goes public, while it is often an investment to shy away from in the US. The responses about the economic viability of nuclear development led to some real fireworks on stage. "The rate-payers, not you, paid to build those reactors," MacFarlane shot back. Cochran added, with some emotion, that Entergy (for instance) had been unwilling to commit to building a plant with their money, when asking for federal subsidies (for site permits and construction licenses). Lingering disagreement = Despite an uneasy agreement among the speakers - both environmentalists and energy-company managers - that nuclear power needs to be pursued, and that technical challenges can be overcome; there was a strong undercurrent of disagreement. It was suggested more than once that the path for development is clearer in the rest of the world than it is in the US .
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"The rate-payers, not you, paid to build those reactors," MacFarlane shot back. Cochran added, with some emotion, that Entergy (for instance) had been unwilling to commit to building a plant with their money, when asking for federal subsidies (for site permits and construction licenses).
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Lingering disagreement = Despite an uneasy agreement among the speakers - both environmentalists and energy-company managers - that nuclear power needs to be pursued, and that technical challenges can be overcome; there was a strong undercurrent of disagreement. It was suggested more than once that the path for development is clearer in the rest of the world than it is in the US