Nuclear power is the most fraudulent and dangerous solution to the climate crisis that could be imagined. It could off humanity before global warming does. Ukraine’s nuclear plants are still at risk of depopulating Europe. And nuclear power increases, not decreases our carbon footprint.
But it’s no surprise that Beyond Nuclear is commenting on the way that both John Kerry and Bill Gates are hijacking the proceedings in Cairo to promote nuclear power.
Gates is a self-serving crackpot billionaire who has somehow bought his way into outsize influence on the policy stage–any “solution” he comes up with is bound to make a public health problem worse. While Kerry consistently overpromises and underperforms–his presidential campaign was almost as amateurish as Hillary Clinton’s.
But the root of the problem is the Biden administration’s completely regressive endorsement of nuclear power expansion, which exposes how hollow is its professed commitment to climate and species survival.
“Selling US reactors to Eastern European countries clearly has nothing whatever to do with climate or energy needs,” Linda Pentz Gunter writes.
It is instead about “using nuclear power as a nuclear weapons surrogate; in bolstering alliances with Russia’s neighbors in a dangerous move to drive Russia into ever greater political isolation; in propping up failing nuclear corporations like Westinghouse; and in answering their nuclear paymasters in Washington by wasting time and our money on foolish new nuclear plants that are irrelevant to addressing the climate peril we are already in.”
“We don’t get to net zero by 2050 without nuclear power in the mix,” Kerry lied at a COP press conference.
“Actually, yes,” Gunter replies, “doing without slow, expensive and dangerous nuclear power is essential if we have any chance whatsoever of achieving net zero (2050 is already too late).”