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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 the nuclear fuel cycle to enable nuclear weapons proliferation, the risks from catastrophicreactor accidents, and the difficulties of managing long-lived and highly radiotoxic nuclear waste.
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Nuclear power: economics and climate-protection potential. Amory Lovins. Rocky Mountain Institute. 06
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Nuclear Energy – Threat to the World – No Solution to Climate Change. Statement of Michael Mariotte, Executive Director of NIRS in Montreal, Canada.
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Nuclear is no solution to climate change: NIRS, Sierra Club of Canada and Heinrich Boll Foundation sponsor an event at COP 11 in Montreal, , including release of a new paper on nuclear power and climate change. December 5, 2005.
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NIRS comments to the California Energy Commission on Nuclear Power in California; calling for opposition to relicensing of Diablo Canyon and San Onofre and discussion of nuclear power/global warming.
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Nuclear Power - The Energy Balance, a study by Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen and Philip Smith, finds that uranium reserves are diminishing rapidly and use of poorer quality ores would greatly increase carbon emissions to a level even beyond use of fossil fuels. ; a rebuttal to World Nuclear Association criticism of the report is also included.
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