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Don’t reclassify nuclear power as ‘renewable’

Don’t reclassify nuclear power as ‘renewable’ Arizona Daily Star Tucson, Arizona  03.14.2009

An effort in the Legislature that would redefine “renewable energy” to include nuclear power could do irreparable harm to the state’s budding clean-energy industries and deserves to be thrown onto the trash heap of non-recyclable ideas.

House Bill 2623, sponsored by Lucy Mason, R-Prescott, has several problems. First, it would include nuclear and hydroelectric power (dams) in the definition of “renewable energy,” which is generally considered power derived from natural sources — such as the sun, wind, biomass, tides and geothermal heat……………………………….Now that the bill is on hold, we hope this is the last we hear of this misguided effort to label nuclear power as a renewable energy source…………………………….

No other state defines nuclear power as a renewable energy source. Similar efforts to do so in South Carolina and Utah have failed. The reasons should be patently obvious.

……………………….. its environmental impact and hazardous-waste output make it much less ecologically friendly than solar or wind power.

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March 15, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized