THE CASE AGAINST NEW NUKES as a CURE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE

Debunking the 'Nuclear Renaissance' - Interview # 4:
Michael Mariotte, Executive Director of the Washington, D.C. based Nuclear Information Resource service ( http://www.nirs.org/ ), talks about the many reasons that the claim - made by such pundits as James Lovelock and Stewart Brand - that a crash buildout of a new generation of nuclear power plants is a rational and necessary response to global climate change is a dangerous fallacy. He ticks off the list of counter-arguements - including waste storage, cost overruns, terrorism and nuclear weapons proliferation - and builds the cast for using our dwindling resources to develop renewable energy sources, rather than squander them on a 'nuclear power renaissance' which is doomed to fail.

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[gagecube]

france seems to do ok with nuke power. Whats the problem..

[hotFusionReaction]

"That the existing reactors use"

What's wrong with that? Why dump something that we now (by his own admission, these designs have been around for going on 40 years) understand VERY thoroughly (in other words, they are very mature technologies).

I'm far from a conservative in Politics (I'm just about as left-leaning as you can get), but in business I am *VERY* conservative.

In business (which this person obviously knows little about) you don't fix what ain't broken!

[tuttt99]

Fuel costs are a minuscule fraction of operating costs for nuclear power plants. Doubling or tripling fuel costs would add only a few percent to the cost of Nuclear generated electricity.

[nonukes1987]

112 accidents in 2008 - contaminated water connections... Look about how French Mafia controls the uranium business in Africa... there are infinite reasons to say that nuclear is dirty.

[guyranting]

if you're against nuke power watch my video if you have a brain, and you can keep your mind open to truth

[OrignalLignator]

There is not enough cheap Nuclear fuel anyways.

[JonThm]

Global WArming was fatal fiction from nuclear power. Question is, do you die? Or do you like life and CO2 - plants do!