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This young girl stands outside the Al-Majidat School for Girls, next to a nuclear facility in Tuwaitha, Iraq. Greenpeace found unacceptable levels of radioactivity here and cordonned the area off.
Enlarge imageNuclear power will not stop global warming. Replacing polluting coal power with another environmental disaster, nuclear power, is not the answer we need.
Independent experts on nuclear energy and climate change
In November, 2006, Greenpeace commissioned an independent panel of nuclear experts to answer frequently asked questions about nuclear power in Australia. Their answers represent their own expertise, independent of Greenpeace opinion.
One of these experts, Peter Bradford, is a former US Nuclear Regulatory Commission member. Here is what he says about nuclear power and climate change:
"Nuclear power cannot be a magic bullet answer to climate change. Even if it is scaled up much faster than anything now in prospect, it cannot provide more than 10 to 15 per cent of the greenhouse gas displacement that is likely to be needed by mid-century... Not only can nuclear power not 'stop global warming', it is probably not even an essential part of the solution to global warming."
Read the full report for other independent answers to questions including:
- Australia's lack of nuclear safeguards
- safety concerns over selling uranium overseas
- greenhouse gas implications with nuclear power.
Read a selection of the independent panel's Q&As
A 2005 report by Australia's leading environment and public health groups also shows why nuclear power is not a solution to climate change.Read Nuclear power: No solution to climate change.
Nuclear power is never safe
There is no such thing as a small nuclear accident. Every part of the nuclear industry has unacceptable risks, including nuclear transport.
Nuclear waste has been a dangerous, unsolvable problem for 50 years. The only safe solution is to close down the nuclear industry and stop creating the waste.
