ReThink Nuclear | RePlanet

ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE

We are in a climate emergency and urgently need to phase out fossil fuels. This is a significant global challenge.

For decades we have had a proven and scalable source of clean energy, it's nuclear.

Yet the impacts of fossil fuels (~ 1 million air pollution deaths every year + environmental destruction + climate change) have been wrongly attributed to nuclear which has seen opposition to the expansion of nuclear energy.

Despite opposition, there are over 440 nuclear reactors operating globally which have avoided 1.6 million air pollution related deaths and over 70 billion tonnes of climate changing GHG emissions.

In the context of the worsening global climate emergency opposition to nuclear is no longer morally or politically justifiable.

It's time to Rethink Nuclear!

SAFE ENERGY

The EU parliament in 2022 voted to include nuclear in its sustainability finance taxonomy following an extensive report from the European Commission's official science advisory, the Joint Research Centre, which found that nuclear energy met the EU requirement to ‘do no significant harm’.

“The analyses did not reveal any science-based evidence that nuclear energy does more harm to human health or to the environment than other electricity production technologies already included in the Taxonomy as activities supporting climate change mitigation”

EU Joint Research Centre

CLEAN ENERGY

A report produced for the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) found that nuclear energy has the lowest life cycle environmental impact. Note that this is for the full life cycle and fuel cycle, not merely plant construction and operation.