Economic Failure According the American business magazine 'Forbes', "The failure of the US nuclear power program ranks as the largest managerial disaster in business history"2. Early hopes of cheap nuclear energy were based on an expectation that whilst nuclear power stations would be more expensive than fossil fuel plants, their running and maintenance costs would be extremely low. Experience has shown that the early optimism was totally misplaced. The cost of nuclear activity at all …showed first 75 words of 1985 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1985 total…specifically built in the 1940s and 1950s to produce plutonium for the US, former Soviet Union and British bombs. Only later were they adapted to generate nuclear electricity. As nuclear technology spreads around the globe, so does the risk of nuclear proliferation. Nuclear weapons can be constructed using plutonium from either military or civilian sources. Source: No author. (n.d.). Nuclear energy implication. Retrieved July 1, 2006, from http://archive.greenpeace.org/comms/no.nukes/nenstcc.html