In reply to prana:
> he would probably have argued for minimising energy usage, and exploring renewables fully before expanding nuclear
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Bear in mind that "expanding nuclear" is only an option if you have a certain type of government, and isn't suitable for unruly, terrorist states, who will have to continue to burn fossil fuels, or have wars waged on them because they will use nuclear power for weapons development...
ie Nuclear may be an option for a very limited number of nations, and that isn't going to be enough to offset greenhouse emissions from the vast majority of the world's countries...
And that's just the political side, leaving alone the long term environmental problems of storgage, transport of nuclear fuel and waste, massive decommissioning costs etc etc...
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