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NUCLEAR POWER: A Nuclear Solution to Climate Change?
William C. Sailor,* David Bodansky, Chaim Braun, Steve Fetter, Bob van der Zwaan
Mitigation of the climate change problem will require a transformation of world energy supply, in which fossil fuels are largely replaced by energy sources that do not emit CO2. Presently, nuclear power provides over 6% of the world's commercial energy, but there are barriers to its significant expansion over the next 50 years. Here we discuss these barriers and argue that none of them are insurmountable.
W. C. Sailor and B. van der Zwaan are at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-6165, USA. D. Bodansky is professor emeritus, Department of Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. C. Braun is with Altos Management Partners, Los Altos Hills, CA 94022, USA. S. Fetter is at the School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1821, USA. B. van der Zwaan is also at the Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: sailor{at}leland.stanford.edu
R. C. Ewing (2004)
Geological Society, London, Special Publications
236, 7-23
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Science
298, 981-987
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