The Update: Time's up for nuclear power

We watch this week as Hitachi announces it is abandoning its two reactor project at Wylfa-B in Wales. And Exelon admits to "severe economic challenges" prompting the premature shutdown of its Byron and Dresden nuclear plants in Illinois. Meanwhile, as Amory Lovins points out on Beyond Nuclear International, we could reduce greater amounts of carbon emissions faster and cheaper by investing money squandered on nuclear subsidies (and especially new reactors) in renewables and energy efficiency instead. Nuclear power, he says, simply makes climate change worse.