Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-13-2009
Abstract
Major electric utilities are deciding whether to build nuclear power plants. How will their decision affect ecological processes and systems, both in the United States and globally? The article makes three arguments: (1) if nuclear power plants are not built, the gap will be filled by more coal-fired power plants; (2) the impact of coal-fired power plants on ecological processes and systems is likely to be increasingly disastrous; and (3) nuclear power’s ecological impacts are likely to be neutral or even positive.
Recommended Citation
Fred P. Bosselman,
The Ecological Advantages of Nuclear Power,
15
N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J.
1
(2009).
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