Nuclear fusion reactor project in France: an expensive and senseless nuclear stupidity

EMS News Release Distribution Center » Nuclear fusion reactor project in France: an expensive and senseless nuclear stupidity: "Today, the nuclear industry presents itself as the solution to climate change in a massive green-washing drive. Far from being a solution, the nuclear option stalls real action to combat dangerous climate change. It is taking away the money for real solutions that are ready and economically available at a large scale, such as wind energy.

Fusion energy - if it would ever operate - would create a serious waste problem, would emit large amounts of radioactive material and could be used to produce materials for nuclear weapons. A whole new set of nuclear risks would thus be created.

'Governments should not waste our money on a dangerous toy which will never deliver any useful energy,' said Jan Vande Putte of Greenpeace International. Instead, they should invest in renewable energy which is abundantly available, not in 2080 but today'

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