The nuclear disaster in Japan raises ethical questions about the future use of nuclear power according to Catholic scholars and other ethicists. The accident could be a “huge wake-up call” that “would give impetus to jump start research” in other energy technologies.
While nuclear energy could be part of the solution to climate change because it does not release greenhouse gases, there are questions about safety and cost effectiveness. A single plant can cost more than $US 5 billion and if anything goes wrong thousands of people could be killed and land could be unusable for centuries
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