New on NIRS' website: Pope Francis' Encyclical on nuclear power and climate (and much more on nukes/climate). http://t.co/oHtJP1oCwI
— NIRS (@nirsnet) June 22, 2015
June 22, 2015. Pope Francis' Encyclical on climate includes several passages highly skeptical of nuclear power as a technology, and thus as a climate solution. Excerpts here.
June 17, 2015. Important new report from Institute for Energy and the Environment at Vermont Law School's Mark Cooper: Power Shift: The Deployment of a 21st Century Electricity Sector and the Nuclear War to Stop It. Describes how the nuclear power industry is seeking consumer bailouts for its uneconomic reactors while working to undermine adoption of clean renewable energy.
December 1, 2014. 148 groups, thousands of individuals, tell EPA to remove nuclear power support from Clean Power Plan Proposal. Comments. Press Release. Additional technical commentssubmitted by NIRS.
32 organizations submitted additional substantive comments on legal and technical deficiencies in the Clean Power Plan proposal.
Exhibit A: Supporting comments from Dr. Arjun Mahkijani of Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Exhibit B: Supporting comments from Mark Cooper, Vermont Law School
Exhibit C: Literature survey of health effects of uranium mining from Chris Shuey, Southwest Research and Information Center
October 7, 2014. Naomi Klein: Dr. James Hansen is wrong on nuclear power.
July 16, 2014. Flyer: Talking Points on nuclear power in EPA's proposed carbon reduction rule. pdf version. jpg version.
June 19, 2014. Recording of last night's NIRS national telebriefing on nuclear power and climate, featuring Michael Mariotte, Hunter Lovins and Tim Judson. mp3 format.
June 18, 2014. Conversation between Professor Benjamin Sovacool and NIRS' Executive Director Tim Judson on nuclear power and climate. Prepared for June 18, 2014 national teleconference on nukes and climate. mp3 file.
June 4, 2014. NIRS factsheet: Nuclear Power and Climate: Why Nukes Can't Save the Planet. Two-page sheet suitable for downloading/printing on the basic reasons nuclear power is not a global warming solution and, in fact, would be counterproductive at addressing the climate crisis.
June 2, 2014. EPA carbon rule offers misguided subsidies for uneconomic, aging and dangerous nuclear reactors; carbon reductions would be greater and costs lower if such reactors were replaced with renewables and efficiency. NIRS press release.
February 5, 2014. Important new post on GreenWorld. Japanese scientists/diplomat respond to Dr. Hansen et al: Nuclear power is not the answer to climate change mitigation.
February 4, 2014. Civil Society Institute (CSI): The Renewable Energy Transition Has Begun. Reply in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to an article in support of nuclear as a climate change strategy, which itself was a response to Hansen et al letter and NIRS/CSI grassroots statement in opposition to nuclear.
January 8, 2014. 300+ environmental and clean energy organizations urge Dr. James Hansen and three other climate scientists to rethink embrace of nuclear power--it's no solution to the climate crisis. Press release from NIRS and Civil Society Institute. Text of letter, including signers...
AND MUCH MORE at:
Background Information on Climate Change and Nuclear Power - NIRS
Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS
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you can't nuke global warming!
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