The global nuclear industry was heavily impacted by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March of 2011 in Japan. Many countries reexamined their nuclear safety standards and there were many changes in regulations and some upgrades to existing plants. Plans for new plants underwent review and some were altered.
Unmanned remote-controlled submersible craft have come a long way since Nikola Tesla demonstrated his radio-controlled robot submersible at Madison Square Garden in 1898.
The Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant is located on the southwest coast of Finland. It has two operational boiling water reactors that each generate eight hundred and sixty megawatts of electricity. A third reactor is under construction at Olkiluoto. This reactor is based on the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) design.
I have often dealt with the question of what impact nuclear power might have on climate change mitigation. Considering the recent Paris accords on reduction of carbon dioxide emissions and the recent election of a new U.S.
