Nuclear power sags in safety, relevance, misleads as climate help, experts, campaigners and politicians say - Bellona.org

International safety experts viewing the damage of Unit 3 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant after the devastating earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011 resulted in one of the world’s worst nuclear and radiation disasters in history. (Photo: G. Webb/IAEA, iaea.org)

ST. PETERSBURG – Nuclear power plants are vulnerable to today’s multiplying threats that include terrorism, electromagnetic pulse, and solar weather, American experts warn. Meanwhile, environmental NGOs urge to drop nuclear as one proposed but untenable remedy for climate change, and Naoto Kan, Japan’s premier during Fukushima, voices confidence in his country’s nuclear-free future...

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