> “Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight -
> vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable risk to
> the environment and to humanity. The only solution is to halt the
> expansion of all nuclear power, and for the shutdown of existing
> plants.â€
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/nuclear
>
> Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, had this to say,
> “In the early 1970s when I helped found Greenpeace, I believed that
> nuclear energy was synonymous with nuclear holocaust, as did most of
> my compatriots. That's the conviction that inspired Greenpeace's first
> voyage up the spectacular rocky northwest coast to protest the testing
> of U.S. hydrogen bombs in Alaska's Aleutian Islands. Thirty years on,
> my views have changed, and the rest of the environmental movement
> needs to update its views, too, because nuclear energy may just be the
> energy source that can save our planet from another possible disaster:
> catastrophic climate change.â€
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/14/AR200...
>
> Wind power and solar generation can’t hack it.  So what are the
> alternatives to nuclear/hydrocarbon power plants? ...
