Inca,

Nice find, a few comments follow:

- Your note says: "Nuclear is not over for at least 20 years, but needs to be cleaner and safer.." It's true that nuclear has an important role to play during at least the nexr 20 years. In some places like Ontario, nuclear power provides ~50% of Ontario electricity needs, the nuclear reactors are kept running 14/7 if possible to provide the base load, leaving the rest like water (need to conserve the water in the reservoir), gas/coal/oil, solar, wind power to make up for the peak demands. Nuclear fuel is cheap and CO2 emmission is ZERO, but people tend not to give nuclear power this credit in the current carbon emmission debate. The Paris discussion should have come out with a statement to promote nuclear power, but it's politics. Instead, 2 points, "cleaner" and "safer", as you have mentioned in your note has been commonly raised against this zero emmission form of energy generation.

- "Cleaner": Presummably, cleaner refers to the nuclear waste. The anti-nuke force has been playing this card for years. Technologies are currently available to provide safe (acceptably safe...there is nothing that is absolutely safe) disposal of nuclear waste. Proposal has been submitted to the governments but our politicians are not jumping with both feet, mainly due to political decision. Debates are plenty on the web.

- "Safer": Nuclear reactor operations are considered "safe enough" by the regulatories bodies around world, including the international Nuclear Safety watchdog in Vienna. The worst nuclear accident was Chernobyl and the predicted death (since cancer death, say thyroid cancer, could be cause by other factors) due to radiation fallout could be in the order of 4000 people after 20 years, according to a group of over 100 scientists. This (4000 predicted fatalities) would be considered as safe enough in comparison with other human activities such as driving cars (over 1M fatalities/years x 20yrs = 20M dead people) and smoking (6M/yr x 20yrs = 120M/20 years).

Same thing here, there is no-risk free investment.

GH