Does Climate Change Make Nuclear A Good Idea?
Is Nuclear Power the Answer to Climate Change?
January 10, 2017 (Pulitzer Center On Crisis Reporting)
“With the election of Donald Trump as president, the United States confronts a new era of climate change discussion…In a special issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, leading experts…focus on the complicated question of whether nuclear power can be a significant part of world efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions…[T]here is no consensus…University of Chicago nuclear expert Bob Rosner, for example, writes that it is technically possible for the world to cut carbon dioxide emissions by replacing fossil fuel electrical generation with nuclear power, but the decision to undertake such a wide-ranging effort is ultimately a political one…[F]ormer Nuclear Regulatory Commission member Peter Bradford says the choice among nuclear power and other low-carbon energy sources should be left to power markets that likely will choose against nuclear in the long run…[The analyses] are intended to inform the public discussion before hard decisions on climate change and energy policy are made…” click here for more
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