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Nuclear Power - Not Worth the Risk

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10 Reasons why nuclear power is not the answer to climate change.

1. Nuclear power is not carbon emission free! The whole nuclear cycle from uranium mining onwards produces
   more greenhouse gases than most renewable energy sources with up to 50% more emissions than wind power.
2. Climate change is happening now. A new nuclear power station takes 10 years to build and longer to
   generate electricity. Wind farms can be up and running in less than a year.
3. It’s expensive.
4. It’s not sustainable. The reserves of uranium ores used to generate nuclear power are going to run out.
   There is only 50 years worth of high uranium ores left in the world. There may be only 200 years left of all
   uranium ores including poor uranium ores which take more energy to mine and process and thus release
   more carbon emissions.Nuclear power is dirty and dangerous.
5. Nuclear power threatens the environment and people’s health. It produces enormous amounts of
   carcinogenic toxic radioactive waste, some of which is dangerous for thousands of years. No safe solution
   has yet been devised to store it.
6. Uranium mining kills. Uranium mining is the first step in the nuclear power cycle; it has taken the lives of
   many miners all over the world causing environmental contamination, cancers and nuclear waste.
7. Nuclear accidents. The risk of terrible nuclear accidents like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and
   Windscale (Sellafield) will plague a new generation of power stations as it did the first.
8. A terrorist target. Nuclear power carries with it the risk of nuclear terrorism. In this age of uncertainty
   dirty bombs and attacks on power stations are a terrifying threat.
9. The proliferation of nuclear weapons is inextricably linked to nuclear power by a shared need for
   enriched uranium, and through the generation of plutonium as a by-product of spent nuclear fuel.
   The two industries have been linked since the very beginning and a nuclear weapons free world
   requires a non-nuclear energy policy. We need real action to save the planet now!
10. We need a safe, genuinely sustainable, global and green solution to our energy needs. A combination of
    renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures which are safe, effective and proven technologies
    are available now. The government must live up to its Kyoto agreements and invest in sustainable clean
    solutions to climate change.
    
    You can stop this lunacy.