気候変動に、対処するために、われわれにとって、今、必要なエネルギー･システムは、原発ではなく、再生可能エネルギーである。 世界においての、原発によるエネルギー供給量は、すでに、再生可能エネルギーに比べて劣り、将来、さらなる減少傾向にある。
Despite what the nuclear industry tells us, building enough
nuclear power stations to make a meaningful reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions would cost trillions of dollars, create tens of thousands of tons of
lethal high-level radioactive waste, contribute to further proliferation of
nuclear weapons materials, and result in a Chernobyl-scale accident once every
decade. Perhaps most significantly, it will squander the resources necessary
to implement meaningful climate change solutions. (Briefing: Climate change - Nuclear not the answer.)The Nuclear Age began in July 1945 when the US tested their first nuclear bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico. A few years later, in 1953, President Eisenhower launched his "Atoms for Peace" Programme at the UN amid a wave of unbridled atomic optimism.
But as we know there is nothing "peaceful" about all things nuclear. More than half a century after Eisenhower's speech the planet is left with the legacy of nuclear waste. This legacy is beginning to be recognised for what it truly is.
Things are moving slowly in the right direction. In November 2000 the world recognised nuclear power as a dirty, dangerous and unnecessary technology by refusing to give it greenhouse gas credits during the UN Climate Change talks in The Hague. Nuclear power was dealt a further blow when a UN Sustainable Development Conference refused to label nuclear a sustainable technology in April 2001.
The risks from nuclear energy are real, inherent and long-lasting.
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