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Nuclear Industry goes into Climate Overdrive

cartoon-climate-conNo 2 NuclearPower No 81 January 2016  “…….. “We are now in the midst of a fight between the past and the future”. Former Australian Greens’ Senator Christine Milne The nuclear industry and its champions went into overdrive during the Paris Climate Conference. Was it a last-ditch effort to convince us all that nuclear power is an important part of the answer to the climate crisis? It all seemed a bit desperate with blatant attacks (1) on those who envisage a future based on renewables and no nuclear.
Nuclear Engineering International reported that the nuclear industry achieved precisely nothing in Paris, (2) but pro-nuclear champions were trying to promulgate three myths. Firstly that there are potentially new reactor types which could help solve the waste problem and the climate crisis given a little bit of extra research and development; secondly that we need nuclear to provide baseload, low carbon electricity; and thirdly that renewables can only provide a proportion of our electricity because of its intermittent nature.
But the truth is that nuclear power is a dangerous distraction from what we really need to be doing to tackle climate change. Every pound spent on nuclear power could have been spent more effectively, making greater reductions in carbon emissions, if it had been spent on energy efficiency or renewables. So spending on nuclear will actually damage our efforts to tackle climate change. And fortunately the concept of a world powered 100% by clean renewable energy is no longer seen as a pipedream but as a necessary and, more importantly, achievable goal at every level–from individuals to large corporations, and from small communities to large cities……… http://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/nuclearnews/NuClearNewsNo81.pdf

January 13, 2016 - Posted by | 2 WORLD, climate change

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