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Endnotes
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30. Ibid.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid; Bruce Hedman, Energy and Environmental
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33. Bressand et al., op. cit. note 15, pp. 9–10.
34. Ibid.
No-Carbon Energy
1. Sidebar 1 from the following sources: S. Mufson,
“U.S. Nuclear Power Revival Grows,” Washington Post,
September 2007; Worldwatch Institute nuclear energy
database compiled from statistics from the International
Atomic Energy Agency, press reports, and Web sites;
“Nuclear Dawn,” The Economist, 6 September 2007;
“Atomic Renaissance,” The Economist, 6 September 2007;
Satu Hassi, European Parliament member, e-mail to
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Power Joint Fact-Finding (Keystone, CO: 2007), p. 30;
MIT Energy Initiative, The Future of Nuclear Power
(Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
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Reactor Licensing Applications,” available at www.nrc.gov,
updated 22 October 2008.
2. World Energy Council, Energy and Climate Change
Executive Summary (London: May 2007), p. 5.
3. New Energy Finance, Global Trends in Sustainable
Energy Investment 2008 (London: 2008).
4. International Energy Agency (IEA), “Electricity/Heat
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5. Ibid.
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