Entries Tagged as 'Climate Change'
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Ironically, Necsa invites tenders for coal supply
By: Matthew Hill
Published: 7 Sep 07 - 10:06
South Africa’s nuclear research and development body, the Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa (Necsa), has invited tenders for companies to supply it with coal.
Strange as it may sound at surface value, given that this is a nuclear corporation, Necsa’s need for coal is explained by the steam-producing boilers that it uses to supply its factories, in Pelindaba, near Hartebeestport dam.
Procurement head Johan Deetleefs said that Necsa consumed, on average, 230 t of coal a month.
The closing date for tenders was…
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Tags: Climate Change · NECSA - Nuclear Corporation of SA · Nuclear Energy
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
What have you got against nuclear power, anyway?
Sooner or later, at least one member of the audience that has turned out to see me present Al Gore’s climate change slide show wants to know why I haven’t included nuclear power in the list of technologies that can help cut our carbon emissions. The question is usually put by the likes of a retired engineer who actually understands the physics and technical aspects of nuclear power. I have to admit that I don’t welcome the question, because it tends to lead to a drawn-out debate at what is already a…
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Tags: Climate Change · Nuclear Energy
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Why Nuclear Energy Isn’t the Great Green Hope
As the planet warms, leaders from Washington to Beijing are pushing nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal. But this new strategy for fighting climate change has a fatal flaw: It can’t possibly work.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3896
As the planet warms, leaders from Washington to Beijing are pushing nuclear power as a clean alternative to coal. But this new strategy for fighting climate change has a fatal flaw: It can’t possibly work.
When U.S. President George W. Bush speaks of using technology to fix climate problems, he often focuses on nuclear energy. Last month he said that…
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Tags: Climate Change · Nuclear Energy
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Nuclear Power ‘Can’t Stop Climate Change’
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which exists to spread the peaceful use of the atom, reveals in a new report that it could not grow fast enough over the next decades to slow climate change - even under the most favorable circumstances.
Nuclear power cannot solve global warming, the international body set up to promote atomic energy admits today.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), which exists to spread the peaceful use of the atom, reveals in a new report that it could not grow fast enough over the next decades to slow…
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Tags: Climate Change · Nuclear Energy
September 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Nuclear greenwashing
Global warming has suddenly put nukes back on the agenda — but there’s a lot the industry isn’t telling you
By Amanda Witherell amanda@sfbg.com
Patrick Moore’s presentation isn’t as slick as Al Gore’s. The slides he shows lack a certain visual panache and don’t compare to the ones in An Inconvenient Truth. Moore himself seems a little frumpy, particularly as he peers out across the audience recently gathered in the Warnors Theatre in Fresno.
But attendees paid $20 to hear the former Greenpeace leader extol the benefits of nuclear energy as a clean, safe, reliable, economic, and — perhaps…
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Tags: Climate Change · Nuclear Energy
