Antinuclear

“You have to address the high capital costs and long time for construction, risks of accidents and proliferation, long-term storage of nuclear waste and social opposition,” Patricia Espinosa, a United Nations envoy on climate, said in a message read to the 550 delegates. ………

IPCC scientists studied 89 different energy scenarios that could keep global temperatures under thresholds that would trigger more superstorms, droughts and famine. While the role of nuclear modestly expanded until mid century under most of those scenarios, its share of power dramatically declined in others.

“One reason for this large variation is that the future development of nuclear can be constrained by societal preferences,” according to Hoesung,  Hoesung Lee, the chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, who was met with other delegates by scores of protesters outside IAEA headquarters in Vienna on Monday.  ….. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-07/nuclear-called-irrelevant-in-climate-fight-without-lower-costs