Nuclear is the new black: talk of a supposed nuclear 'solution' to climate change is polluting the debate. Adam Ma'anit clears the air.(nuclear reactors' gas emissions effect climate)

From: New Internationalist | Date: September 1, 2005| Author: Ma'anit, Adam | Copyright information

Just when we thought it was no longer de rigueur to talk of nuclear utopias where electricity would be 'too cheap to metre', the atom-smashing business is all the rage again. After the PR disasters of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, lobby groups, think-tanks and public relations firms have been hard at it trying to revitalize the industry's battered image with limited success. But increasing concerns about the threat of climate chaos caused by our fossil fuel addiction has handed ...

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