Japan Crisis Shouldn’t Derail U.S. Nuclear Plans, Fanning Says
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Southern Co. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Thomas Fanning, whose company won $8.33 billion in U.S. nuclear loan guarantees last year, said the nation should build reactors without letting radiation releases from a Japanese plant “distract us from what we must do here.”
Current models are “safe,” and new nuclear units would be “safer,” Fanning told the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington today. The two new reactors proposed by Southern would provide 3,000 construction jobs, he said. Fanning also encouraged pursuing energy from coal, natural gas and renewable technologies.