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Nuclear power just too slow to help address climate change

Nuclear power is a particularly slow technology to grow. It is neither a short-term nor medium-term solution to the climate crisis.

Nuclear power: no solution to climate change, Green Left , quoting Mark Diesendorf, 17 April 2010 “……Nuclear power stations, whether conventional plant or hypothetical integral fast reactors, are inherently slow to build, because they are gigantic construction projects.
On the other hand, most renewable energy systems are fast to build, because their components can be manufactured in factories. On-site installation is a minor part of the process.In both 2008 and 2009, the biggest additions to the European Union’s generating capacity came from renewable electricity, mainly wind.
In China, wind power’s generating capacity has doubled every year for the past fives years.Such an extraordinary rate of growth is possible with renewable energy, but is impossible for coal and nuclear power.

Nuclear power is a particularly slow technology to grow. It is neither a short-term nor medium-term solution to the climate crisis.The fact that most renewable electricity systems are manufactured, while nuclear power stations are constructed, also explains why renewable energy can create two to four times more jobs per kilowatt-hour in Australia than coal or nuclear. The smaller components of renewable energy can be readily manufactured here.
Even wind turbine blades were being manufactured in Portland before the collapse of the former Mandatory Renewable Energy Target in 2006. Green Left – Nuclear power: no solution to climate change

April 19, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, climate change | antinuclear, AUSTRALIA, climate change, nuclear costs, nuclear technology, renewable energy, renewables