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      Climate Scientists Urge Environmentalists to Support Nuclear Energy

   Four prominent climate scientists are urging environmentalists to
   support the development of "safer" nuclear energy systems as an
   alternative to fossil fuels that contribute to global warming.
   The U.S. and Australia-based scientists made the appeal in a letter
   issued Sunday and addressed to people "influencing environmental policy
   but opposed to nuclear power."
   Many environmentalists oppose nuclear power as a replacement for fossil
   fuels because they believe nuclear plants are too dangerous and
   expensive. They say governments should invest in energy sources such as
   solar and wind to meet the world`s needs.
   But, the authors of the letter say solar and wind systems cannot be
   developed fast enough "to deliver cheap and reliable power at the scale
   the global economy requires." They say there must be a "substantial
   role" for nuclear power in any "credible" solution to stabilizing the
   climate.
   The four scientists say the risks associated with an expansion of
   nuclear energy are much smaller than those of using fossil fuel power
   plants that they say treat the atmosphere "as a waste dump."
   The letter was written by Kenneth Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution,
   Kerry Emanuel at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, James
   Hansen of Columbia University and Tom Wigley of the National Center for
   Atmospheric Research and professor at the University of Adelaide.
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