Nuclear power is making a comeback, and Mexico is no exception: The CFE, the state-owned federal electricity company, announced plans to build two more nuclear plants in Laguna Verde, in Veracruz state, home to Mexico's sole electric power-generating nuclear plant, in operation since 1990, as part of President Felipe Calderón's clean power energy. Long-term plans of new plants in Sonora were also announced.
It's going to cost, though: So far, $4.5 billion is an estimate. Yet if the alternative is fossil-powered fuel plants, when it comes to pollution it's hard to argue against nuclear plant on environmental grounds.
Atomic energy - it ain't going away anytime soon.
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