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Climate change and Nuclear Power (2000)

Auteur	WWF, Mycle Schneider, WISE Paris
Datum	mei 2000
Classificatie	6.01.2.16/27 (KE & BROEIKAS - WEL/NIET OPLOSSING + SCENARIO'S)
Opmerking	also available in Japanese 6.01.2.16/28
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Climate Change and Nuclear Power

1 Nuclear power and the climate change negotiations

The nuclear industry has increased its efforts to have nuclear power plants 
integrated into the post-Kyoto negotiating process of the UN Framework 
Convention on Climate Change. The Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) states: 
"For many reasons, current and future nuclear energy projects are a superior 
method of generating emission credits that must be considered as the US expands 
the use of market-based mechanisms designed around emission credit creation 
and trading to achieve environmental goals."(1)

The NEI considers that nuclear energy should be allowed to enter all stages of the 
Kyoto "flexibility mechanisms": emissions trading, joint implementation and the 
Clean Development Mechanism. The industry sees the operation of nuclear reactors 
as emission "avoidance actions" and believes that increasing the generation of 
nuclear power above the 1990 baseline year either through extension and renewal 
of operating licenses or new nuclear plant should be accepted under the flexibility 
mechanisms in the same way as wind, solar and hydro power.

For the time being, there is no clear definition of the framework conditions 
for operating the flexibility mechanisms. However, eligible mechanisms must 
contribute to the ultimate objective of the Climate Convention of preventing 
"dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system".

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