Sentences with phrase «alternative than nuclear power»

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A study projects 130 future cancer deaths from the meltdowns at the reactors in Fukushima last year, but does that suggest nuclear power is safer than fossil fuel alternatives?

Re # 33 While using nuclear explosions to solve the problem of AGW is almost certainly less political acceptable than the alternative of building thousands of nuclear power stations, it could produce a solution that would be more effective if the situation becomes urgent.

So, the nuclear solution is two decades away, and then they will risk being more expensive than alternative which will reduce costs in the four decades between now and when new nuclear power plants will still have two decades of debt service on labor costs for building nuclear two to three decades earlier.

Here, in the United States, we need, for several reasons, base load power plants other than natural gas, and with the slow demise of nuclear, coal is the only alternative.

However, none of the alternative technologies, including nuclear power, appear at present to promise sufficient cost reduction to enable the electric power industry to again become a leading rather than a sustaining source of economic growth in the U.S. economy.

However expensive nuclear power might be I assure you that it is less than any alternative for generating electricity on the seaside edges of deserts.

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Though many say that nuclear power is necessary to help limit global warming, Amory Lovins, Co-founder of Rocky Mountain Institute, says that nuclear power is more expensive than alternative energy resources.

The energy debate often doesn't stretch much further than fossil fuels and nuclear power, but there are a host of alternative technologies in the pipeline.

«Many of these alternatives, such as nuclear power and geoengineering, are likely to convey cultural resonances that affirm rather than threaten hierarchical and individualist confidence in the power of human ingenuity to overcome environmental constraints on economic production.»

Likewise if heat is indeed the main factor, nuclear power, though CO2 - free, can not be an alternative since total heat emitted by nuclear power plants is more than twice the electrical output.

In short, given that it is «time to get some policy traction» on global change, nuclear power does seems much less speculative than any alternative other than continued ineffectual handwringing.

To mitigate Climate Change, inevitably, oil and gas professionals would prefer to see a reduction in deforestation and the use of coal rather than a reduction in the use of oil and gas; and as alternatives they prefer the use of nuclear and solar power.

Friends of the Earth Europe reiterates that nuclear power is far more expensive than alternative ways to reduce emissions.

I'm quite resigned to the fact that we are not going to be the ones to prove or disprove this question — it will be left to developing economies like China and India, and other nations that have immediate reasons to pursue nuclear power (South Korea and Japan due to lack of any apparent alternatives, UAE and other oil / gas rich nations that wish to sell rather than use their prized non-coal fossil fuels).

Nuclear power is safer than coal and when construction and operation are included it omits less CO2 than any comparable alternative.