Tony Blair Institute says global carbon emissions would be 6% lower if not for ‘inaccurate narrative’ over 1986 disaster
The protective structure that was placed over the damaged fourth reactor of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in 2016.The protective structure that was placed over the damaged fourth reactor of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine in 2016.Global carbon emissions would be 6% lower than today if not for the “inaccurate narrative” against nuclear power since the Chornobyl disaster that has created “unfounded public concern”, according to Tony Blair’s thinktank.
“The result is that nuclear energy has never become the ubiquitous power source many had projected, with countries instead turning towards alternatives such as coal and gas,” the report said. But it warned that the public’s perception of the risk of nuclear power was “not commensurate with the actual risk” and global leaders would need to move past the “false alarm and ideology” that has slowed the progress of nuclear power in recent decades.to buy energy from a fleet of six or seven mini nuclear reactors from California’s Kairos Power to generate the power needed for the rise in use of AI.
Tone Langengen, a senior policy adviser at the TBI and the lead author of the report, said: “A new nuclear age is beginning. But whether it continues will depend entirely on whether leaders are willing to move past false alarm and ideology, making judgment based upon fact-based assessment of risk.”
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