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Nuclear_power_plant_construction “Nuclear power plant construction” by James Douch – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Commons –

If you think you’ve been seeing a lot more pro-nuclear propaganda in the media than usual in the past couple of weeks, well, it’s not your imagination. The nuclear industry and its champions are out in force, publishing articles and appearing in the media wherever and whenever they can in what may be a last-ditch effort to convince the world–or at least its leaders–that nuclear power is the answer, or one answer, to our climate crisis. As one writer put it yesterday, “At the Paris Climate Summit (COP21), the global nuclear lobby is in overdrive.”

If it all smacks a bit of desperation–and a lot of the pro-nuke pieces out there right now verge on the hysterical, with blatant attacks on those of us who envision a clean energy future–well, that’s…

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December 8, 2015 - Posted by | Uncategorized

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  1. The graph shown on this page should be removed as it has been found to contain inaccuracies. If desired, a superior alternative is available at:

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NuclearPowerStats.svg

    Ypna's avatar Comment by Ypna | March 16, 2017 | Reply

    • The wiki chart looks even more dire than the posted one.. Although China does have alot of planned reactors since the 5 year plan was drawn up, I have to wonder how many will be completed considering the staggering rise in renewable technology in recent years. This reprt covers 2015 “nstalled generating capacity has been increasing at nearly 10% per year since 2010 and reached 1508 GWe at the end of 2015. At the end of 2015 fossil fuelled capacity (mostly coal) reached 990 GWe, hydro capacity was 319 GWe (up 16 GWe in the year), nuclear capacity was 26 GWe, wind capacity reached 129 GWe and solar PV 43 GWe, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (all figures: grid-connected).” http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/country-profiles/countries-a-f/china-nuclear-power.aspx
      Actual generating capacity is a more accurate marker and China has slowed down its use of energy as well .. This years National congress in china is nearly finished and we should get some more information soon on their future energy plans..

      arclight2011part2's avatar Comment by arclight2011part2 | March 16, 2017 | Reply


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