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power ‘cannot rival renewable energy’</H1>
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14th, 2020, by Paul Brown</H3></DIV><A
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title="Nuclear power ‘cannot rival renewable energy’"
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from tackling climate change, nuclear power is an expensive distraction whose
safety is threatened by wildfires and floods, experts
say.</STRONG><BR></P></DIV></DIV>
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<P
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14 January, 2020 –</EM> Nuclear power is in terminal decline worldwide and
will never make a serious contribution to tackling climate change, a group of
energy experts argues.</P>
<P
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recently in London at <A
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href="https://www.chathamhouse.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Chatham House,
the UK’s Royal Institution of International Affairs</A>, they agreed that
despite continued enthusiasm from the industry, and from some politicians, the
number of nuclear power stations under construction worldwide would not be
enough to replace those closing down.</P>
<P
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industry was disappearing, they concluded, while the wind and solar sectors were
powering ahead.</P>
<P
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group met to discuss the updated <A
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href="https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>World
Nuclear Industry Status Report 2019</A>, which concluded that <A
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href="https://climatenewsnetwork.net/nuclear-cannot-help-against-climate-crisis/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>money spent on building and running nuclear power
stations was diverting cash away</A> from much better ways of tackling
climate change.</P>
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used to improve energy efficiency saved four times as much carbon as that spent
on nuclear power; wind saved three times as much, and solar double.</P>
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is a waste of time and money in the climate fight”</STRONG></P></BLOCKQUOTE>
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href="https://rmi.org/people/amory-lovins/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Amory
Lovins, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute</A>, told the meeting: “The
fact is that nuclear power is in slow motion commercial collapse around the
world. The idea that <A
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href="https://climatenewsnetwork.net/small-modular-reactors-have-little-appeal/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>a new generation of small modular
reactors</A> would be built to replace them is not going to happen; it is
just a distraction away from a climate solution.”</P>
<P
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nuclear and climate change, the status report says that new nuclear plants take
from five to 17 years longer to build than utility-scale solar or on-shore wind
power.</P>
<P
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the climate is urgent, nuclear power is slow. It meets no technical or
operational need that these low-carbon competitors cannot meet better, cheaper,
and faster,” the report says.</P>
<P
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was considerable concern at the meeting about the possible danger to nuclear
plants caused by climate change. <A
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href="https://www.worldnuclearreport.org/Who-We-Are.html" rel=nofollow
target=_blank>Mycle Schneider, the report’s lead author</A>, said the reason why
reactors were built near or on coasts or close to large rivers or estuaries was
because they needed large quantities of water to operate. This made them very
vulnerable to both sea and coastal flooding, and particularly to future sea
level rise.</P>
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was also concerned about the integrity of spent fuel storage ponds that needed a
constant electricity supply to prevent the fuel overheating. For example, large
wildfires posed a risk to electricity supplies to nuclear plants that were often
in isolated locations.</P>
<P
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pressure</STRONG></P>
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of coolant because of power cuts could also be a serious risk as climate change
worsened over the 60-year planned lifetime of a reactor. However, he did not
believe that even the reactors currently under construction would ever be
operated for that long for commercial reasons.</P>
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fact is that the electricity from new reactors is going to be at least three
times more expensive than that from renewables and this will alarm consumers.
Governments will be under pressure to prevent consumers’ bills being far higher
than they need to be.</P>
<P
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cannot see even the newest reactors lasting more than a decade or so in a
competitive market at the prices they will have to charge. Nuclear power will
become a stranded asset,” Schneider said.</P>
<P
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report shows that only 31 countries out of 193 UN members have nuclear power
plants, and of these nine either have plans to phase out nuclear power, or else
no new-build plans or extension policies. Eleven countries with operating plants
are currently building new ones, while another eleven have no active
construction going on.</P>
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four countries – Bangladesh, Belarus, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey – are
building reactors for the first time. In the last 12 months only Russia and
China have started producing electricity from new reactors – seven in China and
two in Russia.</P>
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to compete</STRONG></P>
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of the “mysteries” the meeting discussed was the fact that some governments,
notably the UK, continued to back nuclear power despite all the evidence that it
was uneconomic and could not compete with renewables.</P>
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href="https://www.ieac.info/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>Allan Jones, chairman
of the International Energy Advisory Council</A>, said one of the myths peddled
was that nuclear was needed for “baseload” power because renewables were
available only intermittently.</P>
<P
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a number of countries now produced more than 50% of their power from renewables,
and <A
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href="https://www.clickenergy.com.au/news-blog/12-countries-leading-the-way-in-renewable-energy/"
rel=nofollow target=_blank>others even 100% (or very close) while not
experiencing power cuts</A>, this showed the claim was untrue.</P>
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his opinion, having large inflexible nuclear stations that could not be switched
off was a serious handicap in a modern grid system where renewables could at
times produce all the energy needed at much lower cost.</P>
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Lovins said the UK’s approach appeared to be dominated by “nuclear ideology.” It
was driven by settled policy and beliefs, and facts had no connection to
reality. “Nuclear is a waste of time and money in the climate fight,” he
concluded. <EM>– Climate News Network</EM></P></DIV></DIV>
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