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Nuclear power and global energy needs

Nuclear power and global energy needs
Earthwitness 3 July 09 Nuclear energy is too expensive, too dangerous and has no place in our energy future, says a Greenpeace reportThe nuclear industry is using the issue of climate change and energy security as a means to win political and financial support for its dirty and dying industry, says a report by Greenpeace released on July 3.Even a massive, four-fold expansion of nuclear power by 2050 would provide only marginal reductions (4 per cent) in greenhouse gas emissions, when we need global emissions to peak at 2015, cuts of 40 per cent by 2020 and to drop by at least 80 per cent by 2050.Nuclear energy’s ‘contribution’ to fighting climate change would come too late (long after 2020), with huge costs (USD10 trillion), and would create a myriad of other serious hazards related to accidents, waste management and proliferation.

Nuclear power and global energy needs

July 3, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized