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Even anti-nuclear governments are turning to nuclear
power to deal with a record-breaking
heatwave, which has increased demand for electricity to power
air conditioning around the world. To meet rising electricity demand, South
Korea’s anti-nuclear government announced last week that it would
increase the number of operating nuclear reactors from 14 to 19, even
re-starting two reactors that were scheduled to be closed this summer for
maintenance.
In
June, Taiwan’s anti-nuclear government was forced to restart a closed nuclear
reactor in order to meet demand. Last year, the island
nation suffered its worst power
outage ever when seven million homes were left without
electricity.
In anticipation of high
electricity demand during the summer, the Japanese government accelerated
the restarting
of nuclear reactors closed after Fukushima. Nuclear capacity has nearly doubled since March .
Från USA:
The heatwave forced even
anti-nuclear groups like Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), which supports
closing Diablo Canyon, to acknowledge that “Demand for power
[is] only going up."
“Besides the fact that utilities
must serve 50 million more Americans than they did just 20 years
ago," editorialized
EDF, “each of us relies more on electricity. Whether it’s
our iPhones and laptops or the cloud services we connect them to, our personal
and business lives are completely dependent on power and a reliable grid."
And that's not to mention the
accelerating transition to electric cars, whose demand for
electricity could grow 300-fold
between 2016 and 2040.
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