Nuclear plants, as developing countries rush for adopting nuclear power option, (under environmental effects fear) voices rise in developed countries to shut them down

The Future of Nuclear Power : Rewards and Risks

Introduction .The plant , which sits on the banks of the Connecticut River in the town of Vernon , has always endured a love-hate relationship with the state and its residents . The relationship has soured in recent weeks with the discovery of leaking radioactive tritium at the plant and admissions by plant officials that they misled state regulators about the extent of underground piping on the property "Either they 're lying or they 're incompetent , and neither one is good when you 're talking about a nuclear

power plant " said Carol Hosford , of Waitsfield (Associated Press , 2010

A minor news item featured in MSNBC last month , from which the above excerpt is taken , talks about a 38-year-old aging nuclear power plant in the state of Vermont that is still efficient but appears to pose increasing threat to the environment . The local and state authorities want it to be decommissioned , but the owner of the plant , Entergy corp intends to run it for another 20 years . The plant meets one-third of the state 's electricity needs , and the people of Vermont are very much dependent on it for the electricity , of course . But at the same time they have grown distrustful of the quality of management at the plant and the plant 's viability . The future of this plant may not be a national or international concern , but it is a crucial issue for the local people

The fundamental dilemma of the situation here reflects...