Latin America Rethinks Nuclear Energy by Eugenio Fernández-Vázquez and Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra

In Venezuela, President Hugo Chavez announced on May 21 that his government will start to work on the research and construction of nuclear reactors for energy production. It is, he said, “one of the ways to diversify energy sources” and a possible solution to global warming and to the necessity to find alternatives to oil and other fossil fuels.