Reply #70: Everything you could possibly want to know about nuclear power - in one pdf

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The Keystone Center got a group of experts from all sides to see what they could agree on.
Here's who funded it - the nuclear power industry and a bunch of electric companies:
American Electric Power
Constellation Energy
Duke Energy
Entergy
Exelon
Florida Power & Light
General Electric
National Commission on Energy Policy
Nuclear Energy Institute
Pew Charitable Trusts
Southern Company

So if there was any bias - you would expect a pro-nuke bias, right? Oops...
Here's a short article about it - read the whole article:
"Everything you could possibly want to know about nuclear power — and its (limited) potential as a potential climate solution — can be found in the new Keystone Center Report with the less-than-captivating title “Nuclear Power Joint Fact-Finding.”
http://climateprogress.org/2007/06/18/nuclear-power-no-climate-cure-all

You can download the full Keystone report here - it's about 2 megabytes:
http://www.keystone.org/spp/documents/FinalReport_NJFF6_12_2007%281%29.pdf

Also essential reading - an interview with a co-author of the Carbon Wedges study:
he discusses solutions, and says "I personally think nuclear is a non-starter."
http://theclimategroup.org/index.php/viewpoint/stephen_pacala/

And of course - Al Gore's policy address - he discusses solutions, and says,
"As a result of all these problems, I believe that nuclear reactors will only play a limited role."
http://nyu.edu/community/gore.html