Nuclear's second wind - Climate solution or illusion?
Nuclear's second wind - Climate solution or illusion?
http://www.newint.org/issue382/index.htm
Almost 20 years on from the Chernobyl disaster, the nuclear industry
now appears to be recovering from the fallout of negative public
opinion and is increasingly being seen as a 'green' solution to the
world's intensifying energy demands. This issue of the NI seeks to
unpack the arguments supporting a renewed interest in nuclear power
and some of the enduring impacts of our quest to harness the power of
the atom.
Not long ago, you could have been forgiven for thinking that nuclear
technology was on its way out. After major disasters such as Three
Mile Island and Chernobyl, officials were sizing up the nails for the
industry's coffin. But it would seem that nuclear power wasn't dead -
just resting. And in Asia it has been experiencing something of a
renaissance.
Now with climate change emerging as a matter for urgent attention,
nukes are getting a new look-in in countries which had, until
recently, shunned the atom in favour of oil, gas and coal. 'Nuclear
is the new black,' remarked my friend Ell in exasperation at
pronouncements from some prominent environmentalists who've swallowed
the climate-friendly hype coming from the industry.
And hype is just what it is. As anti-nuclear campaigners often say,
the industry is 'all subsidies, no substance'. Its climate claims are
equally full of hot air. Meanwhile, all this talk of a new nuclear
dawn is just holding us back. Nuclear's had its chance (remember
those promises of 'electricity too cheap to metre'?). The nuclear
power station - big, expensive, corporate, toxic and wasteful - is a
perfect symbol of the kind of blinkered development model we have
been pursuing. And now with the race towards fusion, it seems we are
still blindly following this destructive path. It's time to change
the way we think about power - literally and politically.
As the anti-nuclear movement folks would say: 'Nuclear Energy? No Thanks!'
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