The dream that failed.

The article focuses on the future of nuclear power in the wake of the 2011 nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, Japan. It states that past nuclear accidents at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 and in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986 did not significantly impact the building of nuclear power plants. It comments on the commercial infeasibility of nuclear power due to high capital costs for new reactors and mentions the nuclear proliferation concerns about nations interested in nuclear power.