Stanford professor Mark Z Jacobson has said new nuclear plants may cost up to 7.4 times more than wind and solar facilities, with construction times longer by up to 15 years. Such a delay, he said, may see an huge amount of extra carbon emissions from fossil fuel power sources. His verdict comes as China this month set new guaranteed tariffs for nuclear power.Claiming nuclear power plants emit zero or near-zero CO² is a false assumption refuted by objective data, according to the Evaluation of Nuclear Power as a Proposed Solution to Global Warming, Air Pollution and Energy Security paper written ...Den vollständigen Artikel lesen ...