An email from Rod Adams Climate CoLab winner favors nuclear solution

Climate CoLab winner favors nuclear solution

The winners of the annual Climate CoLab competition (http://climatecolab.org/web/guest) have the opportunity to present their brief at the United Nations and the US Congress in late January 2012.

The national category winner this year was "Cycling Carbon" (http://climatecolab.org/web/guest/plans/-/plans/contestId/5/planId/15204) by Dennis Peterson.

It includes the following plank in the plan:
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4: Advanced nuclear power

Economic incentives are all well and good, but if we don't have the physical ability to radically reduce emissions at reasonable cost, our incentives won't make it happen. There are limits to efficiency and sequestration. Transitioning to carbon-free energy sources is the only long-term solution. To accomplish this, we can't afford to take options off the table. Many experts are skeptical that renewables can do the job, due to intermittency and storage issues. While this proposal supports renewables, it also advocates an aggressive program to develop advanced nuclear energy, including integral fast reactors and liquid thorium reactors. In addition, it advocates modest additional investment in alternative nuclear fusion projects.

Advanced nuclear technologies can destroy nuclear waste, produce little waste of their own, are resistant to proliferation, and are extremely safe. The U.S. has a large inventory of nuclear waste that could jumpstart an ambitious program.
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This entry in the contest received 56% of the votes cast, more than 2 times the number by the second place finisher.