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From
Yahoo News/Associated Press:
Experts say nuclear power needed to slow warming
PITTSBURGH (AP) � Some of the world's top climate scientists say wind and solar energy won't be enough to head off extreme global warming, and they're asking environmentalists to support the development of safer nuclear power as one way to cut fossil fuel pollution.
Four scientists who have played a key role in alerting the public to the dangers of climate change sent letters Sunday to leading environmental groups and politicians around the world. The letter, an advance copy of which was given to The Associated Press, urges a crucial discussion on the role of nuclear power in fighting climate change.
Environmentalists agree that global warming is a threat to ecosystems and humans, but many oppose nuclear power and believe that new forms of renewable energy will be able to power the world within the next few decades.
That isn't realistic, the letter said.
A bit more:
The letter signers are James Hansen, a former top NASA scientist; Ken Caldeira, of the Carnegie Institution; Kerry Emanuel, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Tom Wigley, of the University of Adelaide in Australia.
All major anti-development and anthropogenic global warming scaremongers. For them to see the light on nuclear is an absolute delight.
The old-school nukes are not as efficient as the new designs. We need to develop the Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR ('lifter')) as soon as possible. Thorium is a common element in the Earth's crust, it doesn't go Ka-Boom like some isotopes of Uranium and Plutonium. The reactors can burn a lot more of their fuel (PBWRs can only burn about 5% of the Uranium fuel before it gets contaminated, LFTRs are more like 80%). The LFTRs can even be configured to burn the nuclear waste of the older reactors.
China is building them, so is India. We need to step up to the plate...
Posted by DaveH at November 3, 2013 10:46 AM