More Environmentally Friendly Energy Available
Letter to the editor
Davie County Enterprise-Record
November 17, 2005

• It's too expensive. Nuclear power has proved much more costly than projected—and more to the point, more costly than most other ways of generating or saving electricity. If utilities and governments are serious about markets, rather than propping up pet technologies at the expense of ratepayers, they should pursue the best buys first.
  
• Nuclear power plants are not only expensive, they're also financially extremely risky because of their long lead times, cost overruns, and open-ended liabilities.
  
• Contrary to an argument nuclear apologists have recently taken to making, nuclear power isn't a good way to curb climate change. True, nukes don't produce carbon dioxide—but the power they produce is so expensive that the same money invested in efficiency or even natural-gas-fired power plants would offset much more climate change.
  
• And of course nuclear power poses significant problems of radioactive waste disposal and the proliferation of potential nuclear weapons material.

from RMI postion paper on Nuclear Power

Rocky Mountain Institute - www.RMI.org - Nuclear Power postion paper Amory Lovins

Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League - New Nukes in NC Perkins Reactor fact sheet

Nuclear Information and Resource Service - NIRS.org

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