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Nuclear Energy's Climatic Achilles Heel

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By Ross Gelbspan
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While many experts, including Britain’s James Lovelock, have been promoting nuclear energy as a greenhouse-gas-free method of generating electricity, recent shutdowns in of nuclear plants in Europe due to overheated cooling water and low-flowing rivers have exposed a very serious danger to a reliance on nuclear energy โ€“ and one which will only become worse as the planet continues to heat up.

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