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**Evaluation of Nuclear as a Solution**

in evaluating solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy
security, two important questions that arise are

(1) should new nuclear
electricity-producing plants be built to help solve these problems, and

(2)
should existing, aged nuclear plants be kept open as long as possible to
help solve the problems?

This section discusses these issues after nuclear
power is explained.

In sum, before accounting for waste storage or meltdown
damage costs, a new nuclear lant costs about 3 to 4 times that of a new
onshore wind farm, takes 7 to 21 years longer between planning and
operation than a wind farm, and produces nine to 37 times the emissions per
unit electricity generated as a wind farm.

Thus, funds spent on new nuclear
means much less electricity, a much longer wait, and a much more emissions
than the same funds spent on WWS. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change similarly concludes that the economic, social, and technical
feasibility of nuclear power have not improved over time.

 Stanford University 30th Oct 2024, https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/WWSStillNMN/SNMN-WhyNotNuclear.pdf

November 16, 2024 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change