Climate Changed
Nuclear Faces Climate-Fight Irrelevance Without Lower Cost
- Officials say industry moves too slowly to avert warming
- Reactors currently generate a third of low-carbon power
Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg
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Catastrophic climate change can still be averted even without increasing one of the biggest sources of carbon-free electricity.
That was the message sent to International Atomic Energy Agency officials on Monday, who convened their first-ever conference exploring how nuclear power could help mitigate climate change. Reactors currently supply about a third of the world’s low-carbon electricity, but that share could tumble as economies turn to cheaper technologies.