47 organizations, including NIRS, send letter calling for major improvements in House climate change legislation.

Presentation from Michael Mariotte’s talk on nukes and climate at SUNY Stonybrook.

World’s environmental movement says "Keep nukes out of Kyoto Protocol": Press Release Press Advisory, including main statement List of organizational signers

Al Gore issues a five-part, non-nuclear plan for the Obama administration to address the climate crisis. NY Times op-ed.

New study (which reviews 103 previous studies and finds nearly all lacking) concludes that nuclear power is not carbon-free, and its carbon emissions, while far lower than all fossil fuels, are higher than renewable sources of energy. Published in Energy Policy, by Benjamin Sovacool, University of Singapore & Virginia Tech.

Friends of the Earth memo on nuclear power and the Lieberman-Warner climate change bill.

A new report argues that the world’s supply of uranium ore is now so depleted that the nuclear industry may already have passed the point at which it is able to supply the energy needed even to dispose of its own wastes. In The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy, A Life-Cycle in Trouble, British energy economist David Fleming details how the nuclear industry will be forced to become a major net user of energy, almost all of it from fossil fuels. ‘The evidence is clear: even under the most optimistic scenarios for uranium supplies, the industry will face `energy bankruptcy’ in a matter of decades,’ says Fleming.