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Here are six reasons why nuclear power is not the way to a green and peaceful zero carbon future. 1. Nuclear energy delivers too little to matter. In order to tackle climate change, we need to reduce fossil fuels in the total energy mix well before 2050 to 0%.
Nuclear power may become a significant casualty of intensifying climate impacts. As things stand, nuclear infrastructure is largely unprepared. Some reactors could soon become unfit for...
Nuclear power produces very few lifecycle carbon emissions. It also faces substantial economic challenges, and carries significant human health and environmental risks. UCS strongly supports policies and measures to strengthen the safety and security of nuclear power.
No nuclear power has yet found a way to deal with its stockpiles of radioactive waste. These, too, are nuclear disasters.
The world is now at a nuclear crossroads: It could scale up nuclear as a sturdy energy source to keep emissions down, or throw all its money behind renewables, which are quicker to build and...
Nuclear power has bleak prospects because it has no business case. New plants cost 3–8 x or 5–13 x more per kWh than unsubsidized new solar or windpower, so new nuclear power produces 3–13x fewer kWh per dollar and therefore displaces 3–13x less carbon per dollar than new renewables.
Most experts FactCheck.org contacted, including those who think nuclear power should remain an option, said that from a technical perspective, nuclear is not needed to decarbonize the...
If nuclear power is key to tackling climate change, is it time to reconsider our attitudes?
Nuclear reactors and power plants have complex safety and security features. An uncontrolled nuclear reaction in a nuclear reactor could result in widespread contamination of air and water. The risk of this happening at nuclear power plants in the United States is small because of the diverse and redundant barriers and safety systems in place ...
Nuclear power, which currently provides about ten per cent of the world’s electricity, remains a profoundly risky technology.