Ocasio-Cortez’ Green New Deal Leaves the Door Open to Nuclear

Green New Deal sponsor Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez still has an “open mind” on nuclear energy. “I don’t take a strong anti- or pro-position on it,” the New York Democrat said about nuclear energy in an interview in mid-2019.

While Ocasio-Cortez has an "open mind" on nuclear energy, she differentiates between the decades-old plants in the United States and more advanced technologies under development. Her Green New Deal resolution, which calls for “clean, renewable, and zero-emission energy” to meet 100 percent of U.S. power needs in the next 10 years, “leaves the door open on nuclear so that we can have that conversation,” she said.

Ocasio-Cortez, alongside many other progressive lawmakers and environmental groups, is pushing for an expedited U.S. energy transition, showed that she retains an open mind towards getting answers to the typically controversial questions over whether the technology will improve and whether the markets would adopt future generations of nuclear power.

Passing the Green New Deal resolution, she said, “is what will allow us to have these substantive conversations.”

Read more at Morning Consult, "Ocasio-Cortez: Green New Deal ‘Leaves the Door Open’ on Nuclear."

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April 6, 2019

Nuclear power can save the world

Some of the smartest thinkers on the planet recognize the potential for nuclear power to be the white knight we need for climate change. Writing for the The New York Times, Nuclear Power Can Save the World, Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist, and Steven Pinker extol the technology as the fastest way to slash greenhouse gas emissions and decarbonize the economy.

Drs. Goldstein and Qvist are the authors of “A Bright Future: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow.” Dr. Pinker is a psychology professor at Harvard and author of "Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress" and "The Better Angels of our Nature" among many other books.

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October 15, 2018

The Nature Conservancy: The Science of Sustainability

The Nature Conservancy recognizes that nuclear must be part of our clean energy mix. They state in their Sustainability: "In order to both meet increased energy demand and keep the climate in safe boundaries, we’ll need to alter our energy makeup to curtail emissions of carbon and other harmful chemicals. The reduction in carbon-based energy could be offset by increasing the share of energy from renewable sources to 54 percent and increasing nuclear energy to one third of total energy output—delivering a total of almost 85 percent of the world’s energy demand from non-fossil-fuel sources.

See The Nature Conservancy: "The Science of Sustainability" (see the section entitled "A Changing Energy Portfolio.").

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