Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Germany: Nuclear Phase Out? (1/14)
A view of the nuclear power plant in Philippsburg, Germany. The plant was built in the 1970s. In 2001, the governing coalition of Germany's Social Democrats and Green Party decided to phase out of nuclear energy by 2021. The Phillippsburg reactors are scheduled to go offline in 2011 and 2017.
By 2005, however, the election of a new government and concerns over greenhouse gas emissions prompted the overturn or alteration of the phase-out decisions. (Photo: Reuters)
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Germany: Nuclear Phase Out? (1/14)
A view of the nuclear power plant in Philippsburg, Germany. The plant was built in the 1970s. In 2001, the governing coalition of Germany's Social Democrats and Green Party decided to phase out of nuclear energy by 2021. The Phillippsburg reactors are scheduled to go offline in 2011 and 2017.
By 2005, however, the election of a new government and concerns over greenhouse gas emissions prompted the overturn or alteration of the phase-out decisions. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Nuclear Power Boom in China (2/14)
Chinese workers leave a nuclear power plant in Qinshan. Beijing plans to invest 48.3 billion dollars in building around 30 new nuclear reactors by 2020, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation. China currently has nine working reactors generating around 2.3 percent of its electricity, but the country aims to boost the proportion of power it gets from nuclear energy to 4 percent within 15 years. (Photo: Reuters)
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Nuclear Power Boom in China (2/14)
Chinese workers leave a nuclear power plant in Qinshan. Beijing plans to invest 48.3 billion dollars in building around 30 new nuclear reactors by 2020, according to the China National Nuclear Corporation. China currently has nine working reactors generating around 2.3 percent of its electricity, but the country aims to boost the proportion of power it gets from nuclear energy to 4 percent within 15 years. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Protests Against Nuclear Deal (3/14)
A member of the Communist Party of India protests against a Indo-U.S nuclear agreement sealed in August 2007. Experts fear the deal could undercut a global treaty against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The agreement would give India access to U.S. nuclear fuel and equipment for the first time in 30 years, even though India has stayed out of non-proliferation pacts and tested nuclear weapons. (Photo: Reuters)
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Protests Against Nuclear Deal (3/14)
A member of the Communist Party of India protests against a Indo-U.S nuclear agreement sealed in August 2007. Experts fear the deal could undercut a global treaty against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The agreement would give India access to U.S. nuclear fuel and equipment for the first time in 30 years, even though India has stayed out of non-proliferation pacts and tested nuclear weapons. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Fueling Russia's Power Plants (4/14)
A worker checks the radiation level of uranium oxide, also known as 'yellow cake,' at the East Mynkuduk PV-19 uranium mine in southern Kazakhstan. The mine was constructed in the 1980s as a step in the Soviet Union's secret plan to fuel its Cold War ambitions. The plan was ditched after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. After two decades of neglect, the mine is in the spotlight again, with Kazakhstan - home to a fifth of global uranium reserves - ambitious to become the world's number-one uranium producer. (Photo: Reuters)
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Fueling Russia's Power Plants (4/14)
A worker checks the radiation level of uranium oxide, also known as 'yellow cake,' at the East Mynkuduk PV-19 uranium mine in southern Kazakhstan. The mine was constructed in the 1980s as a step in the Soviet Union's secret plan to fuel its Cold War ambitions. The plan was ditched after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986. After two decades of neglect, the mine is in the spotlight again, with Kazakhstan - home to a fifth of global uranium reserves - ambitious to become the world's number-one uranium producer. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Australia: Huge Resources, Little Enthusiasm (5/14)
In 1998, plans to open a new uranium mine on the territory of a Native Australian tribe at Jabiluka in the Northern Territory led to eight months of protests and blockades. The mining company Rio Tinto finally decided to shelve the plans until other Australian mines were depleted. In 2003, rehabilitation works commenced and 50,000 tons of uranium ore already extracted but never processed were put back down the mine-shaft. (Photo: Reuters)
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Australia: Huge Resources, Little Enthusiasm (5/14)
In 1998, plans to open a new uranium mine on the territory of a Native Australian tribe at Jabiluka in the Northern Territory led to eight months of protests and blockades. The mining company Rio Tinto finally decided to shelve the plans until other Australian mines were depleted. In 2003, rehabilitation works commenced and 50,000 tons of uranium ore already extracted but never processed were put back down the mine-shaft. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
USA: Nuclear Boom, but no Disposal (6/14)
The Yucca Mountain Range in the U.S. state of Nevada has been proposed for a nuclear waste repository decades ago. Initial plans foresaw the repository to work by 1998. Due to protests and lack of funding, the earliest opening date is now 2021, according to the California Energy Commission. Meanwhile, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission foresees dozens of new U.S. nuclear power plants adding to the existing stockpiles of nuclear waste. (Photo: Open Source)
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USA: Nuclear Boom, but no Disposal (6/14)
The Yucca Mountain Range in the U.S. state of Nevada has been proposed for a nuclear waste repository decades ago. Initial plans foresaw the repository to work by 1998. Due to protests and lack of funding, the earliest opening date is now 2021, according to the California Energy Commission. Meanwhile, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission foresees dozens of new U.S. nuclear power plants adding to the existing stockpiles of nuclear waste. (Photo: Open Source)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Nuclear Waste Disposal (7/14)
Twelve castor rail containers with spent nuclear fuel on their way from the French reprocessing plant of La Hague to the German Gorleben interim storage facility. Transports are only possible with intensive police support, because farmers, locals, and protesters from all over Germany try to block every delivery to the contested storage facility. (Photo: Reuters)
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Nuclear Waste Disposal (7/14)
Twelve castor rail containers with spent nuclear fuel on their way from the French reprocessing plant of La Hague to the German Gorleben interim storage facility. Transports are only possible with intensive police support, because farmers, locals, and protesters from all over Germany try to block every delivery to the contested storage facility. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Nuclear Waste Disposal II (8/14)
German riot police line up during a demonstration against the transportation of nuclear Castor rail containers in the northern German village of Gorleben. Thousands of policemen have to secure each transport making the excercise extremely costly. (Photo: Reuters)
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Nuclear Waste Disposal II (8/14)
German riot police line up during a demonstration against the transportation of nuclear Castor rail containers in the northern German village of Gorleben. Thousands of policemen have to secure each transport making the excercise extremely costly. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Safe Storage for Millions of Years? (9/14)
Vehicles are parked in a tunnel at the Konrad mine in Bleckenstedt, Germany. The former iron ore mine is now planned to be a possible storage site for the disposal of radioactive waste. Due to protests and unsolved technical problems, no such facility exists yet worldwide. (Photo: Reuters)
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Safe Storage for Millions of Years? (9/14)
Vehicles are parked in a tunnel at the Konrad mine in Bleckenstedt, Germany. The former iron ore mine is now planned to be a possible storage site for the disposal of radioactive waste. Due to protests and unsolved technical problems, no such facility exists yet worldwide. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Fears over Nuclear Pollution (10/14)
A Greenpeace diver inspects a waste pipe dumping radioactive nuclear waste into the English Channel from the nuclear processing plant COGEMA at La Hague, France in 1997. France reacted by imposing a ban on fishing and yachting around the La Hague area. (Photo: Reuters)
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Fears over Nuclear Pollution (10/14)
A Greenpeace diver inspects a waste pipe dumping radioactive nuclear waste into the English Channel from the nuclear processing plant COGEMA at La Hague, France in 1997. France reacted by imposing a ban on fishing and yachting around the La Hague area. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Megatons to Megawatt (11/14)
A replica of a nuclear weapon is displayed at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Japan. After the cold war, Russia and the U.S. have agreed to decommission thousands of nuclear warheads. In a program called "Megatons to Megawatts," the U.S. dilutes tons of highly enriched warhead uranium and plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants. (Photo: Reuters)
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Megatons to Megawatt (11/14)
A replica of a nuclear weapon is displayed at Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki, Japan. After the cold war, Russia and the U.S. have agreed to decommission thousands of nuclear warheads. In a program called "Megatons to Megawatts," the U.S. dilutes tons of highly enriched warhead uranium and plutonium into fuel for nuclear power plants. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Protests Against Plutonium (12/14)
Greenpeace activists block the shipment of 140 kg of weapons-grade plutomium arriving from the United States in Cherbourg, France in October 2004. The nuclear material from former warheads went to a plutonium fuel fabrication facility in southern France to be processed for use in nuclear power plants. (Photo: Reuters)
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Protests Against Plutonium (12/14)
Greenpeace activists block the shipment of 140 kg of weapons-grade plutomium arriving from the United States in Cherbourg, France in October 2004. The nuclear material from former warheads went to a plutonium fuel fabrication facility in southern France to be processed for use in nuclear power plants. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Nuclear Power or Nuclear Weapons? (13/14)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. Iran's plans to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial-scale challenge the U.N. Security Council, which has imposed sanctions on Iran. Experts fear that Iran could use enriched nuclear fuel to build nuclear weapons. (Photo: Reuters)
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Nuclear Power or Nuclear Weapons? (13/14)
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at Natanz nuclear enrichment facility. Iran's plans to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial-scale challenge the U.N. Security Council, which has imposed sanctions on Iran. Experts fear that Iran could use enriched nuclear fuel to build nuclear weapons. (Photo: Reuters)
Can Nuclear Energy Help Fight Climate Change?
Secret Enrichment Facility (14/14)
The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Iran is pictured in this satellite image. Iran has been targeted by U.N. Security Council for insisting on uranium enrichment. This satellite image shows the location of the underground centrifuge cascade halls for the Fuel Enrichment Plant that could produce weapon-grade nuclear fuel, U.S. experts fear. (Photo: Reuters)
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Secret Enrichment Facility (14/14)
The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Iran is pictured in this satellite image. Iran has been targeted by U.N. Security Council for insisting on uranium enrichment. This satellite image shows the location of the underground centrifuge cascade halls for the Fuel Enrichment Plant that could produce weapon-grade nuclear fuel, U.S. experts fear. (Photo: Reuters)
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