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False promises. Debunking Nuclear Industry Propaganda (Revised edit.)
| Author | NIRS |
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6-01-0-00-254.pdf |
| Date | May 2008 |
| Classification | 6.01.0.00/254 (GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
False
Promises
Debunking Nuclear Industry Propaganda
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
6930 Carroll Avenue, Suite 340 • Takoma Park, MD 20912 • 301-270-6477
www.nirs.org • nirsnet@nirs.org
False Promises
By the Staff of Nuclear Information and Resource Service
Michael Mariotte, Executive Director
Diane D’Arrigo, Radioactive Waste Project Director
Mary Olson, Southeast Regional Coordinator
Aja Binette, Nuclear Power Economics Campaigner
Donald Keesing, Administrative Coordinator
With contributions from Cindy Folkers, Paul Gunter and Kevin Kamps
Revised from False Promises by Jessie Carr and Dulce Fernandes
May 2008
Table of Contents
1 FOREWORD
By Michael Mariotte
3 FOREWORD TO FIRST EDITION
By Robert Alvarez
5 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
6 INTRODUCTION
9 BRIEF HISTORY OF NUCLEAR POWER’S
FALSE PROMISES
11 Chapter 1
Nuclear power is counterproductive for combating
climate change
14 Chapter 2
Nuclear power can be dangerously unreliable under
severe weather or destabilized climate conditions
16 Chapter 3
There are many proven, sustainable alternatives
to nuclear power and coal
21 Chapter 4
Nuclear power pollutes
23 Chapter 5
Reactors remain dangerous; catastrophic accidents
can and likely will occur
30 Chapter 6
Nuclear power is expensive
34 Chapter 7
Radioactive waste remains a problem without a solution
38 Chapter 8
Nuclear weapons proliferation concerns are increasing worldwide
41 Chapter 9
Nuclear power does not lead to greater energy security
or US energy independence
42 Chapter