Nuclear

“As a lifelong environmentalist, I’m against nuclear. But what if what I’ve been thinking all this time and what my friends have been thinking all this time is wrong?” Stewart Brand, Founder of Whole Earth Catalogue

If you support our goal of an evidence-based approach to clean energy for all, please talk about these issues with your family and friends.
Solving these problems will need people to keep asking questions and keep believing that solutions are possible.

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NUCLEAR POWER: CLIMATE ACTIVISTS DISAGREE

Hansen et al. are evenhanded in their assessment of nuclear and renewables; they don’t throw renewables under the bus, and they’re upfront about the safety and waste issues associated with the nuclear fuel cycle. However, they make the simple, realistic and obvious point that is understood by every single human being in the energy world, and that is that renewables have one fundamental flaw of nature that is problematic for energy systems in society: Renewables are intermittent.

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Nuclear is Normal: When Your Local Reactor is the Safest Place in the World

“We can only have a rational debate about the risks and benefits of nuclear power if we can put the risks into a balanced perspective.” ~ Professor Geraldine Thomas   Five years ago this month the advanced industrial nation of Japan was brought to its knees by a record 9.0 magnitude earthquake. A tsunami of […]
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Nuclear is Normal - What to Do with a Banned Bomb?

“Poetically, it’s very beautiful. The very things that were designed to blow up our cities… are now lighting up our cities.” ~ Stewart Brand   We’ve done it! Nuclear weapons are banned! The US, China and Russia have taken their arsenals off the table. France and the UK, likewise. India and Pakistan have signed the […]
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Time and cost: End-game for nuclear opposition?

Guest post by Ben Heard Around the world, credible objections to nuclear energy have progressively contracted to issues of time and cost to deliver. Even here, the data favours a large role for nuclear energy with other solutions. Yet the opponents are not all wrong either. Nuclear energy must improve its global profile in on-time […]
Nuclear Energy Fact Sheet

Nuclear Fact Sheet

EFH Nuclear Fact Sheet Final We must not underestimate the challenge of meeting an acceptable emissions target. The challenge is likely impossible to meet without deploying all available mitigation options. The only carbon-free energy technology that is mature, demonstrably cost-effective and proven to be scalable at a globally relevant level is nuclear energy. Continuing to […]
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Could 2016 be the year for nuclear energy?

Will 2016 and beyond be the years we see the resurgence of the nuclear renaissance?