No good means: Nuclear energy sold as a major solution would generate harm

By V.B. Price / Associated Press
April 23, 2005

While the president still refuses to believe in global warming, the federally subsidized nuclear energy industry and its lobbyists use global warming as a major reason to promote the construction of new reactors. <snip>

In America, about 33 percent of greenhouse emissions come from cars and trucks and about 36 percent from power plants using coal, natural gas or petroleum. Globally, deforestation is the cause of some 25 percent of all carbon emissions. Nuclear energy would do nothing about that.

If the United States converted completely to nuclear-generated electricity, it wouldn't even reduce the nation's greenhouse emissions by half. <snip>

With hidden taxpayer costs in research, waste storage and government incentives, a 60-year horizon for uranium reserves and huge operational water consumption in an era of global water shortages, nuclear energy is not a good deal. <snip>

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