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Last updated: September 12, 2001

Background information: Why nukes do not save the climate


Acceptance as a useful tool in the fight against climate change is the last hope for the otherwise dying nuclear industry. They are trying to present themselves as 'part of the solution' to climate change. Don't be impressed with their glossy factsheets stating how nukes are climate-friendly!

In this section you can find (and download for further distribution) some of our materials and counter-information.

Nuclear energy: The clean air energy - a remedy for the greenhouse effect? 4 pages leaflet, WISE, September 2000
www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/factshe.html
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Are we gonna nuke the climate?! (two pages article, WISE, September 2000)
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/related/are.html

¿ Nuclearizar el clima? La traducción del artículo "Are we gonna nuke the climate?!", WISE, September 2000)
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/related/arecas.html

Clean Development Mechanism: A new nuclear subsidy? Article published in WISE News Communique, March 2000
www.antenna.nl/wise/526/5143.html

Joint Implementation Projects and the fate of Nuclear Power Article published in WISE News Communique, May 2000
www.antenna.nl/wise/530/5173.html

Nuclear energy in the new century; the beginning of the end - WISE contribution at a workshop during a COP-prep.meeting in Bonn, (three pages, June 2000)
www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/related/century.html

No nukes in the CDM! WISE statement at a press conference during a COP-prep.meeting in Lyon, September 12, 2000
English www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/related/lyonen.html
Français www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/related/lyonfr.html.
Statement of Indian NGO's on nuclear energy and climate change, presented during press conference in Lyon, (1 page, Greenpeace India, September 12, 2000, Lyon)
www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/related/india.html

Renaissance Atoomindustrie dreigt. (gepubliceerd in Ravage #11, 1 september 2000) [in Dutch]
www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/related/ravage.html


Materials produced by other organizations:

Climate Change and Nuclear Power, a very good report, 26 pages, WISE-Paris for the WWF, April 2000; a PDF file
http://www.antenna.nl/wise/cop6/download/climate.pdf

...The largest generators of nuclear power also have energy sectors with the highest CO2 emissions...; Summary at
http://www.panda.org/resources/publications/climate/nuclear_power/ccnp_nego.html

The Clean Development Mechanism: an instrument for sustainable development or a new nuclear subsidy? Greenpeace, November 2000
http://www.greenpeace.org/~climate/climatecountdown/nukescdm.pdf [39 kB]

Nuclear Power and Climate Change Friends of the Earth UK, 7-page special briefing, September 2000
http://www.foeeurope.org/dike/intern/download/nukes.pdf [146 kB]

Nuclear power: Too expensive to solve global warming By the National Environmental Trust, Washington D.C. November 1, 1999
http://environet.policy.net/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=18534

Nuclear power is no solution to climate change: Exposing the myths. A factsheet by Friends of the Earth Scotland, January 1998
www.nirs.org/factsheets/KYOTONUC.html

Background on Nuclear Power and the Kyoto Protocol A factsheet prepared by Nuclear Information and resource Service (NIRS), Washington D.C.
www.nirs.org/nukesandglobalwarming/CDM-Nukesnirsbackground.htm


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