Economy under threat, energy group says nuclear power

Nuclear reactors in the United States need a boost - either through CO2 taxes, regulatory or coal-fired plants force slash emissions - or many forces economic factors, according to a report released today from a non-profit group to close. Nuclear power - currently the only large CO2-, approximately around the clock-baseload power source - 19 per cent of US power and is the key for the promise to reduce emissions 17 percent by President Obama reach below the level from 2005 to 2020, according to the Center for climate and energy solutions. The profitability of the 100 nuclear reactors in the United States is a deterioration of the report says, because of the abundance of cheap natural gas and increasing wind power generation. A CO2 tax or some form of emissions trading - for example require to buy coal-fired plants and mix their electricity with nuclear power--are essential to the withstand of nuclear power plants close before the end of its lifetime the report requested. Four power companies recently retire five nuclear reactors, announced that more than 4 percent of the US nuclear weapons capacity, and are equivalent to 3.7 million rooftop solar panels or 7,600 wind turbines, says the group.

View the original article here