Some two dozen power plants are scheduled to be built or refurbished during the next five years in Canada, China, several European Union countries, India, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, and South Africa. In the US and the UK, governmental preparations are under way that may lead to 15 new reactor orders by 2007.
As the rest of the US government's fiscal year 2006 budget was being finalized by Congress in November and December, the Department of Defense budget was mired in congressional fights over a host of provisions that had little or nothing to do with defense—oil drilling in the Arctic, a ban on torture, hurricane relief, and preparations for a bird‐flu pandemic. And although Congress added $50 billion to the defense authorization for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration is expe...
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