Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair argues nuclear power isn’t a climate solution

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Former Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair argues nuclear power isn’t a climate solution
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Building new nuclear reactors in the US has been a 'complete fiasco,' he says.

grand juries have charged the developers of an expansion project at South Carolina’s V.C. Summer Nuclear Station with fraud.

We have to get the facts right. And the premise of your question is not true. There’s no such thing as a direct one-to-one replacement, first of all. It simply comes down to the need. I do not see a place in which these reactors will play a role because they do not meet the demands of the electricity space right now.

Your statement says that nuclear energy as a climate strategy is “[m]ilitarily hazardous since newly promoted reactor designs increase the risk of nuclear weapons proliferation.” Can you explain?

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