DIW: Ten years after Fukushima: Nuclear energy is still dangerous and unreliable

• Analysis of global nuclear power developments, especially since the Fukushima major accident

• Since the beginning of the commercial use of nuclear power in the 1950s major incidents have repeatedly occurred

• Report investigates planned and unplanned outages; nuclear power is incident prone and unreliable

• Outages particularly frequent in France, but are a significant issue in Germany as well• Methodological research needed to include nuclear’s unreliability in energy and climate models

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