Researchers push nuclear energy.(News)
Waste News, August, 2003
Byline: Joe Truini Researchers at two prominent U.S. universities have concluded that nuclear energy cannot be overlooked as part of the world's future energy mix. Nuclear energy is an important option to meet future energy needs while reducing pollution, according to researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University.
Fossil fuel-based electricity will account for 40 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, said John Deutch, MIT chemistry professor and former CIA director, who co-chaired the study. MIT released the study July 29. Some 90 percent of U.S. carbon emissions from electricity generation come from coal-fired units, which produce only about 52 percent of the nation's power, Deutch said....
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