Nuclear renaissance

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"Nuclear renaissance" is a term used by promoters of the nuclear industry and some journalists to describe a possible expansion of the nuclear power industry ostensibly as a 'solution' to global warming.

Nuclear renaissance skeptics

Some long time environmentalists, like Patrick Moore (a paid consultant for the U.S. Nuclear Energy Institute) and Stewart Brand, are now nuclear power advocates. Yet environmental organizations disagree that the development of nuclear power is an environmentally sound energy policy. When asked his opinion on proponents of nuclear power expansion, the highly regarded energy efficiency analyst Amory Lovins was blunt: "I think they haven't done their homework. And I keep asking for their analysis and not getting it, because I don't think they have one." Nuclear power, he argues, is no solution to global warming. "If you buy more nuclear plants, you're going to get about two to ten times less climate solution per dollar, and you'll get it about twenty to forty times slower" than efficient use of electricity, renewables and micropower, he said. Lovins is also dismissive of claims that a "nuclear renaissance" is sweeping the world. "It's a very carefully fabricated illusion. And the reason it isn't happening is there are no buyers. That is, Wall Street is not putting a penny of private capital into the industry, despite 100-plus percent subsidies." [1]

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