Reacting to Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s bill proposing to reopen the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power plant, Greenpeace submitted a position paper to the Chamber opposing the measure and batting instead for renewable energy.
Greenpeace’s paper states that:
- Nuclear power is highly expensive and a risky investment, repeatedly failing to deliver.
- It’s construction and generating costs are greater than most renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies.
- It posses multiple threats to people and the environment.
- The risks and environmental damage from its spawned sub industries. Which are the mining, processing and transport of nuclear fuel and nuclear weapons proliferation.
- The potential hazard of a serious accident
- The unsolved problem of nuclear waste
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Category: Nuclear, Global Warming, Clean Energy
