If the candidates and the public are still unclear on the dangers and the insecurities of nuclear power and “clean coal”, I invite you to the following:
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Mattie is a member of the Ohio Student Environmental Coalition's Steering Committee, an organization he founded at Power Shift 07. He is proud to support a growing statewide network of student groups working for a clean, safe, and just future for all. Mattie originally got involved as a Syracuse University student who saw a pressing need for climate action, later as an Energy Justice Network intern who began to realize the human impacts of coal, and finally as an OSEC organizer committed to building an economy and climate worth fighting for. He also has a degree in women's studies and sociology, is a founding member of the Mountain Justice Spring Break Planning Collective and an intentional community in Columbus, and is the convener of the Energy Action Coalition's Anti-Oppression working group.
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The nuclear fact sheet did not provide references for the claim of increased cancer near nuclear plants. UNSCEAR, NCI, as well as various state epidemiology departments have studied these claims and show NO statistical increase in cancer near nuclear plants. Newer techniques (e.g., centrifuge enrichment, deep borehole burial, etc.) are available to further improve nuclear safety.
As for solar and wind, they are not baseload sources of electricity. If we need low carbon baseload, nuclear is likely part of the mix.
No comment on nuclear, no my area.
As for ‘base load’ who needs it? So last century…get with the smart grid.
We have so much inverese intermitant coal it’s unreal. Why do we keep all this plant going just incase we get a peak? How about demand side management, grid and domestic storage so we dont get a peak?
Diversity of generation by scale, better connectivity and better management. Thats what we need, not more ‘base load’.
Smartgrid without baseload needs a lot of cheap energy storage. So far, it is more expensive to wrangle a group of intermittent sources together along with intermittently used energy storage. You will still need baseload even with smartgrid to keep electricity affordable.
@Calvin:
I hope you understand that “demand side management” is a euphemism for turning off the power. Why should the electric power business be structured so that the response to a potential sales increase is to turn customers away and fail to serve their needs?
Do you have any idea just how limited and expensive currently available electricity storage systems are DESPITE more than 100 years of intense effort to find a break through?
If the much vaunted smart grid works as well as many large scale computing networks, leave me out. I like the five nines full capacity grid that we had with 1970s vintage technology and do not want the equivalent of countless spinning beachballs/hour glasses, failed to load, and server unavailable instances that are part of daily living on the Internet.
Your so-called “fact” sheet on nuclear power is rife with errors. Nuclear power provides over 70% of the emission-free energy in this country. And it does it safely and reliably, at a relatively low cost.
If you’re really worried about it “getting hot in here” then why should you levy unfounded, emotional attacks against the MVP in the fight against carbon emissions?