Nuclear power can’t curb global warming: report
In a blow to those who think nuclear power is the solution to the planet’s climate woes, Reuters is reporting Nuclear power can’t curb global warming.
Nuclear power would only curb climate change by expanding worldwide at the rate it grew from 1981 to 1990, its busiest decade, and keep up that rate for half a century, a report said on Thursday.
Specifically, that would require adding on average 14 plants each year for the next 50 years, all the while building an average of 7.4 plants to replace those that will be retired, the report by environmental leaders, industry executives and academics said.
The needed rate of expansion would be faster than during the industry’s first 40 years and than the Energy Information Administration’s forecast for the next 30 years in the United States.
The full report paints a pretty convincing picture, even putting aside issues of waste management and the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation, the numbers just don’t add up; nuclear is not the answer. — DS
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