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Climate change puts nuclear energy into hot water

Climate change puts nuclear energy into hot water

By James Kanter

Published : May 20, 2007

PARIS : Could climate change be the latest jinx on nuclear power ?

Long regarded with suspicion because of radioactivity, nuclear power suddenly has a revived image, thanks to the idea that many more plants could be built without worsening global warming. Unlike power plants fired by coal and natural gas, nuclear fission produces no carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas.

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