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SA NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE ROYAL COMMISSION  PROFESSOR
HENRY SOKOLSKI, The Nonproliferation Policy Education Centre TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS ADELAIDE, 25 NOVEMBER 2015 DAY 27

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COMMISSIONER: We had it put to us that nuclear power generation might  be the saviour in terms of climate change. Would you add that to your economic analysis of light-water reactors in terms of accepting their development?

PROFESSOR SOKOLSKI: I think I would not, and I’ll tell you why. This is  a topic which has been debated very extensively here in the States and as a result, the folks promoting nuclear power and the folks who are against nuclear power have gotten focused on very, very detailed analytical models. The best, or I should say the one used the most, is put out by an auditing firm called McKenzie. This model has been used by Greenpeace analysts and the largest 25 merchant utility utilising nuclear power…