NUCLEAR POWER
DEAD ON ARRIVAL
THE 1980S witnessed a virtual world-
wide collapse of orders for new nuclear
power plants. The 1970s were marked by
frequent technical mishaps, serious ac-
cidents, huge cost escalations, and a rapid
decline in public acceptance of nuclear
power. Since 1978, more than 18 Euro-
pean nations have abandoned the use of
nuclear energy.
CARBON DIOXIDE
FIXATION WITH COPPER
BOTH THE ARTICLE “New Way To ‘Fix’
CO2” (C&EN, Jan. 18, page 6) and the
original report of work led by Elisabeth
Bouwman of Leiden University (Science
2010, 327, 313) failed to note that the re-
duction of CO2 by a Cu(I) complex has
been observed at least twice before in the
past decade. The first time was by Louis J.
Farrugia, Stefan Lopinski, Paul A. Lovatt,
and Robert D. Peacock (Inorg. Chem. 2001,
40, 558) and then by us (Acta Cryst. 2005,
E61, m1904).
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