Environmentalists Shift on Nuclear Power
May 15 - United Press International
Some prominent U.S. environmentalists say nuclear power should be reconsidered as a remedy for global warming, the New York Times reported Sunday.
It's not that something new and important and good has happened with nuclear,
it's that something new and important and bad has happened with climate change,
Brand said in an interview.
Other environmental experts -- including Fred Krupp, the executive director
of Environmental Defense; Jonathan Lash, the president of the World Resources
Institute; and James Gustave Speth, the dean of Yale's School of Forestry and
Environmental Studies -- have stopped short of openly endorsing nuclear power,
but they have said it should not be outright rejected.
The environmentalists say solutions should to be developed for the economic,
safety and security, waste storage and proliferation issues.