Nuclear Weapons and ‘Fourth Generation’ Nuclear Power
‘Integral fast reactors’ and other ‘fourth generation’ nuclear power concepts have been gaining attention as potential contributors to climate change abatement, in part because of comments by US climate scientist James Hansen. However, nuclear power could at most make a modest contribution to climate change abatement, and all nuclear power concepts fail to address the single greatest problem with nuclear power − its repeatedly-demonstrated connection to the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction.
August 25, 2009