Rep. Upton Seeks $5 Billion Taxpayer Subsidy for New Nuclear Reactors: Critics Charge He’s Doing Nuclear Power Industry’s. NIRS press release.
Union of Concerned Scientists statement on Keystone Center report. “Nuclear power is not a current solution for global warming.”
Major study from Austrian government re-examines nuclear power. Conclusion: “Austria takes the view that electricity production from Nuclear Energy is neither sustainable nor environmentally sound and is therefore not suitable to contribute to the solution of the climate problem or the peak oil crisis…” . (4 mb).
New Greenpeace report on the economics of nuclear power finds that that nuclear power is neither a practical nor economically viable solution to tackling climate change.
Today, 145 businesses, environmental organizations, and other groups (representing 37 states) released the “Sustainable Energy Blueprint” – a policy paper that outlines a “plausible strategy for achieving a no-nuclear, low-carbon, highly-efficient and sustainable energy future.” It provides a timeframe and series of policy recommendations for rapidly expanding the use of energy efficient and renewable energy…
145 organizations, including NIRS, release the Sustainable Energy Blueprint: a paper outlining a “plausible strategy for achieving a no-nuclear, low-carbon, highly-efficient and sustainable energy future. Press Release. Download .pdf verion of Blueprint here
The Safety and Reliability – or Lack Thereof – of Nuclear Reactors in a Destabilized Climate,” at IEER training workshop on “Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change. NIRS power point presentation.
Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change, Brice Smith, Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. The large number of reactors required for nuclear power to play any meaningful role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions greatly complicates the efforts required to deal with its unique vulnerabilities including the potential for…
A False Myth of Nuclear Power: Nuclear Power Expansion is No Remedy for Climate Change, a talk by Mary Olson, Director of the Southeast Office of Nuclear Information and Resource Service during the Commission on Sustainable Development, United Nations
Confronting a False Myth of Nuclear Power: Nuclear Power Expansion is Not a Remedy for Climate Change. Paper delivered to the Commission on Sustainable Development, United Nations by Mary Olson, Director of the NIRS Southeast Office.