The central dilemma of nuclear power in an increasingly water-stressed world is that it is a water guzzler, yet vulnerable to water. And, decades after Lewis L. Strauss, the Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Agency, claimed that nuclear power would become “too cheap to meter,” the nuclear industry everywhere still subsists on munificent government subsidies.
在这个水资源日渐匮乏的世界上，核能身上的核心困境莫过于它既是水资源的极大消耗者，都是水文灾难的脆弱受害者。就在美国原子能机构委员会前主席刘易斯·L·斯特劳斯宣称核能将“便宜得不值一提”的数十年后，全球的核电工业依然要靠政府的大笔补贴才能生存。