Debunking a Lot of Hot Air

The International Atomic Energy Agency, which promotes nuclear power, concluded that "even under the most favourable circumstances," nuclear power wouldn't slow global warming. An IAEA report predicted that global warming would decrease more if "no new [nuclear plants were] built beyond those already planned," because "the world would have to be so prosperous to afford" a significant increase in nuclear plants that greenhouse gas emissions "from fossil fuels would have grown even faster." The IAEA's findings undercut the Nuclear Energy Institute's claims that "nuclear energy ... helps to keep the air clean, preserve the Earth's climate, avoid ground-level ozone formation and prevent acid rain."