In a recent article in Foreign Policy, the case is made that despite the events of the Spring of 2011 and the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, there has yet to emerge a viable alternative to nuclear power as a means of sating the energy needs of a growing world. Twice before have the world been reminded of the perils of nuclear power, at Three Mile Island in 1979 and at Chernobyl in 1986. While those events have largely been relegated to the pages of history, the Fukushima incident in March of this year has again brought the issue to the forefront of energy policy around the world.

However, the nations that have taken real steps towards dismantling its nuclear power base are few in number: only Germany and Japan have halted development or set to phase out existing reactors. Nuclear power is an energy source riddled with risks and with terrifying worst-case scenarios, but the article posits that the so-called Nuclear Renaissance is still very much alive. Read the full article here.