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Keep nuclear power out of Clean Development Mechanism. NGOs Call for removal of the Option to “Include Nuclear Activities” in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) because nuclear power contradicts CDM

01.12.2008 |WECF

The nuclear industry is using the issue of climate change and energy supply as a vehicle to win political and ﬁnancial support for its dirty and dying sector. Even a massive, four fold expansion of nuclear power by 2050 would provide only marginal reductions (4%) in greenhouse gas emissions, when we need global emissions to peak at 2015 and 50 - 80% cuts by 2050.

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Nuclear Power contradicts Clean Development
Nuclear energy’s ‘contribution’ to ﬁghting climate change would come too late (long after 2020), with huge costs (US$ 10 trillion) and would create a myriad of other serious hazards related to accidents, waste and proliferation. These large costs and negative impacts make nuclear energy an obstacle to the necessary development of effective, clean and affordable energy sources – both in developing and industrialised countries. Activities related to nuclear power must not be allowed to become eligible for the Kyoto Protocol’s ﬂexible mechanisms in order to avoid undermining climate protection by wasting time and taking resources away from more effective and clean solutions. Dumping this expensive and unsafe technology on developing countries who would be landed with the associated economic and environmental impacts (accumulation of massive ﬁnancial debts, increased dependency on foreign fuel and technologies, increased risk from reactor accidents and contamination); and decreasing global security as volumes of nuclear waste with no safe methods of disposal increase massively and both nuclear materials and technologies are spread.

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