Any new disaster could spell the end of nuclear industry – OECD economist

The Fukushima Daiichi disaster that struck Japan in March following a major earthquake and tsunami would slow nuclear power growth and another big accident could mean the end of nuclear as a long-term energy option, despite the relative safety of the technology, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Nuclear Energy Agency principal economist Jan Keppler said at a Department of Energy nuclear energy seminar on the sidelines of seventeenth Conference of the Parties (COP 17), in Durban. He said the world had to pay more attention to external natural events such as seismic events and tsunamis, as well as severe accident management and emergency preparedness needed to be improved, as reported by Engineering News.