Nearly 300 Groups Reject Nuclear Energy as a Global Warming Solution

[pberq]

More propaganda: I heard on NPR the other day something like, "Even some environmentalists are supporting nuclear power now. . ."

Nuclear power is incredibly expensive and creates radioactive waste that will be around for millions of years.

http://www.nirs.org/press/06-16-2005/1

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Nearly 300 Groups Reject Nuclear Energy as a Global Warming Solution. Groups Urge Congress to Choose Clean Energy Path, Not Embrace Dangerous and Dirty Nuclear Power.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to an industry campaign touting new nuclear reactors as a solution to global warming, nearly 300 international, national, regional and local environmental, consumer, and safe energy groups reiterated their substantial concerns today over nuclear energy and rejected the argument that nuclear power can solve global warming. Rather, the groups urged a focus on clean and renewable sources of energy and energy efficiency and conservation.

With votes on global warming amendments anticipated in the next week during Senate consideration of the energy bill, representatives of several of the groups called on Congress to reject legislation that subsidized nuclear power plants as part of reducing global warming pollution.

"Global warming is the most serious environmental problem facing us today and we should aggressively increase energy efficiency and renewable energy to reduce carbon dioxide pollution," said Anna Aurilio, Legislative Director for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group. "We're now one of nearly 300 public interest groups that say nuclear power is too dangerous and expensive and should not be part of a global warming solution," she added.


There's also a discussion on this topic here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=115x26060

[MadHound]

1. There is no need to take the nuclear genie out of the bottle again

We still haven't cleaned up the mess it made from the last time, we certainly don't need it out again. Besides, there are many more safe, clean, non or low polluting alternative energy sources out there.