World Bank Ends Its Ban on Funding Nuclear Power Projects
The world’s largest and most influential development bank said on Wednesday it would lift its longstanding ban on funding nuclear power projects.
The decision by the board of the World Bank could have profound implications for the ability of developing countries to Индустриализирайте без изгаряне на горива за стопляне на планетата като въглища и петрол.
Забраната публично е налице от 2013 година, само че последния път, когато банката финансира план за нуклеарна сила, е 1959 година в Италия. In the decades since, a few of the bank’s major funders, particularly Germany, have opposed its involvement in nuclear energy, on the grounds that the risk of catastrophic accidents in poor countries with less expertise in nuclear technology was unacceptably high.
The bank’s policy shift, described in an email to employees late on Wednesday, comes as nuclear power изпитва гл...
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