Nuclear power: 'Carved crystal' of climate change

The development of uncontrolled large-scale natural gas use will not solve the climate problem but also cause more deaths than the development of nuclear power.

Global use of nuclear power has saved about 1.8 million people from air-related deaths and avoided emissions of about 64 billion tons of greenhouse gases from coal use. stone and other fossil fuels. A result of such research has recently been published in the Journal of Environmental Science and Technology of the American Chemical Society.

The development of large-scale, uncontrolled use of natural gas will not solve the climate problem.(Image source: www.bavvut.com.au)

Two Pushker A.Kharecha and James E. Hansen researchers have confirmed that nuclear power has the potential to help control global climate change and both diseases and deaths related to air pollution.

They further emphasized that the potential is a reality, although there are safety concerns, about the issue of radioactive waste burial and the possibility of converting nuclear materials for weapons production. gas.

Concerned about the Fukushima incident in Japan that could overshadow the benefits of nuclear power, the researchers had to conduct analyzes of the benefits that nuclear power has brought in reducing carbon dioxide emissions and deaths due to air pollution.

Nuclear power plants are 'insights' of global climate change hazards.(Photo source: www.ecofriend.org)

Studies have come to the conclusion that nuclear power has brought great benefits, given the calculated figures on the number of deaths and greenhouse gas emissions that have been prevented in the period from From 1971 to 2009. Studies also show that nuclear power may have prevented 420,000 to 7 million deaths in the middle of the century, while preventing emissions of about 80-240 billion tons of gas. greenhouse causes global warming.

The results of Pushker A.Kharecha and James E. Hansen's study, clearly, further emphasize that: Nuclear power is 'refined' global climate change.

They also noted that: 'On the contrary, we believe that uncontrolled large-scale use of natural gas will not solve the climate problem but also cause more deaths than electricity development. Nuclear".

Kharecha added that, assuming the role of nuclear power diminishes over the next 20 to 30 years, the International Energy Agency estimates that "breakthrough achievements" should be achieved in using New low-carbon emission technologies can achieve the goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate change. The technologies mentioned so far have not been challenged.