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Expanding nuclear and renewable energy programs can combat climate change by reducing reliance on fossil fuels.

Radiation nuclear disasters. On top of that because all nuclear reactors take 10 19 years or more between planning and operation vs. It takes about seven years for a nuclear power station to generate more carbon dioxide free electricity than was spent building the plant and getting it operational. The long list of links includes their histories similar technologies skills health and safety aspects regulatory issues and radiological research and development.

To create uncertainty about the ability of renewable energy to power an industrial society they bombard decision makers and the media with negative myths about renewable energy and positive myths about nuclear energy attempting to turn these myths into conventional wisdom. Clean safe renewable energy technologies have the potential to supply 100 of the worlds electricity needs but the first hurdle is to refute the deliberately misleading myths designed to promote the politically powerful but ultimately doomed nuclear industry. Dont believe the spurious claims of nuclear shills constantly doing down renewables writes mark diesendorf.

Introduction nuclear weapons and nuclear power share several common features. Nuclear waste vs renewable energy. Over the past 50 years the use of nuclear power has reduced co2 emissions by over 60 gigatonnes nearly two years worth of global energy.

Together they provide three quarters of global low carbon generation. The strategies and tactics of renewable energy deniers are very similar to those of climate science deniers. As new wind turbines go up and more land is cleared for solar developments nuclear power stations are suffering a slow death.

That number is even higher in other countries. High level nuclear wastes will have to be safeguarded for 100000 years or more far exceeding the lifetime of any human institution. Nuclear power plants and renewable energy generators like wind farms and hydroelectric dams currently provide a combined 19 of the power consumed in the united states.

A recent piece in the new york times nuclear power can save the world stirred up discussion regarding the role of nuclear energy in a future transitioning off fossil fuelsthis discussion of the. For example the process of enriching uranium to make it into fuel for nuclear power stations is also used to make nuclear weapons. Michael shellenberger founder of clean energy advocacy group environmental progress points to research showing global nuclear energy capability has declined 7 from its high point in the 1990s.

Meanwhile denmark is moving to 100 renewable electricity by 2035 and germany to at least 80 by 2050.