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Some analysts have been quick to point out that nuclear plants such as Zaporizhzhia are designed to withstand terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
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For months, the world has been concerned that fighting around the huge Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine poses a risk for all of Europe. Earlier this week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a global nuclear watchdog, said that the situation was getting worse.
Last week, I posted about a dispute over a contract award for operation of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Now a second company has disputed the award of the three-billion-dollar contract to Bechtel subsidiary Tularosa Basin Range Services. Westinghouse subsidiary Carlsbad Operations Alliance filled a protest with the Government Accounting Office (GOA) on August 1st.
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Many analysts believe that nuclear energy is at an inflection point. Historically, early enthusiasm about its potential was undercut by a series of devastating and dangerous accidents. These three nuclear disasters took place at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979; Chornobyl in Ukraine in 1986; and Fukushima Daiichi in Japan in 2011.