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The IPCC's Shifting Position On Nuclear Energy
Lasrick writes Suzanne Waldman writes about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its stand on nuclear power over the course of its five well-known climate change assessment reports. The IPCC was formed in 1988 as an expert panel to guide the drafting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, ratified in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. The treaty's objective is to stabilize greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a safe level. Waldman writes: 'Over time, the organization has subtly adjusted its position on the role of nuclear power as a contributor to de-carbonization goals," and she provides a timeline of those adjustments.
...how they feel about nuclear power as an "eco-friendly" source of "renewable" energy.
And the rest of the growing list of countries phasing it out completly.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_phase-out
Exactly how many nuclear disasters does it take before we figure out how to do what these other countries are already doing?
Sent from my ENIAC
I was told that a single unicorn horn can store up to 10 GWh