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1. | In Japan, where nuclear power supplies 27 percent of the country's electricity, new nuclear plants are being deployed at the fastest rate in the world. |
In Sweden, where nuclear power supplies 42 percent of the country's electricity, voters passed a referendum to close all of the country's nuclear plants. |
2. | Throughout the world, nuclear power is an inexpensive generating option. |
Between 1971 and 1985 the cost of building new nuclear plants in the U.S. rose sixfold. |
3. | The potential hazards of nuclear reactors have been reduced to an extremely low level of actual risk. |
A nuclear power plant accident could cause 50,000 early fatalities and $314 billion in property damages. |
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The small volume of high-level waste makes it highly controllable, compared to other industrial wastes. |
No technology for the safe, permanent containment of radioactive wastes has been developed and tested. |
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In the U.S., no commercial nuclear power plant worker has ever exhibited clinical evidence of serious injury from radiation. |
Nuclear power's occupational hazards are manifested more in long-term cancer than in immediate lethality. |
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