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Face It. Nukes Are the Most Climate-Friendly Industrial-Scale Form of Energy

Look at the environmental protection agency’s CO2-per-kilowatt-hour map of the US and two bright patches of low-carbon happiness jump out. One is the hydro-powered Pacific Northwest. The other is Vermont, where a 30-year-old nuclear reactor, Vermont Yankee, keeps the Ben & Jerry’s cold. The darkest area corresponds to Washington, DC, where coal-fired power plants release 520 times more atmospheric carbon per megawatt-hour than their Vermont counterpart. That’s right: 520 times. Jimmy Carter was right to turn down the heat in the White House.

By Spencer Reiss

Full Story: http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_08nuclear

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