6. Nuclear Phoenix: An Unacceptable Risk?(원자력 불사조: 용납할 수 없는 위험?)
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Nuclear Phoenix: An Unacceptable Risk?
6. 원자력 불사조: 용납할 수 없는 위험?
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Nuclear Phoenix: An Unacceptable Risk?
Concern about Climate Change is Spurring an Atomic Renaissance
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Dominion, who owns 2,000-megawatt Millstone nuclear power plant in Waterford, Connecticut (and two nukes in Virginia), is the kind of big power player that has long had an antagonistic relationship with the environmental movement. The case for Dominion as a friend of the Earth, however, is based on a few simple facts: It generates 45 percent of Connecticut’s electricity and 30 percent of Virginia’s without taking a huge toll in smokestack-emitted global warming gas. What’s more, in contrast to the modest current capacity of wind and solar power, nukes can produce very large amounts of electricity—enough to counter global warming by taking highly polluting coal-burning plants offline even as electricity demand increases.
Nuclear power has already won some powerful allies in the environmental community. Fred Krupp of Environmental Defense says, “We should all keep an open mind about nuclear power.” Jared Diamond, best-selling author of Collapse, says, “To deal with our energy problems we need everything available to us, including nuclear power,” which should be “done carefully
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