Re: "Nuclear energy 'not the solution to global warming"

"In a joint statement following a meeting in Dublin, the four
ministers from the non-nuclear countries said the "inherent risks and
problems associated with the nuclear energy option remain and it can
not therefore claim to be a clean alternative to fossil fuel use."

They said it was the sovereign right of each country to decide its own
energy mix.

"However, for Ireland, Iceland, Norway, and Austria, we voice serious
concern that nuclear energy is being presented as a solution to
climate change.

"It is our collective view that the current debate seeks to downplay
the environmental, waste, proliferation, nuclear liability and safety
issues and seeks to portray nuclear energy as a clean, safe and
problem free response to climate change."

The statement said the trans-boundary nature of health and environment
risks associated with nuclear energy dictated that governments in
countries with nuclear power needed to ensure that other countries'
concerns were taken into consideration"


All of which is saying that nuclear energy *is* a solution to
global warming. it just isn't a solution to nuclear waste :) Which
is a problem that's really almost non-existent in reality. this is
politicians currying votes, nothing to do with the science or reality
of any power production system.

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