ccxxxviii Silva Herrmann, “The Price Tag of <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power”, Friends of the Earth Europe, http://www.foeeurope.org; Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World <strong>Nuclear</strong> Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., pp. 68, 75. ccxxxix See Helen Caldicott, <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power is Not the Answer, op. cit., pp. 99-105 for a more detailed discussion of this. ccxl Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World <strong>Nuclear</strong> Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 44. ccxli Kim Cawley, “The Federal Government’s Responsibilities and Liabilities Under the <strong>Nuclear</strong> Waste Policy Act”, Statement before Committee on the Budget, U.S. House of Representatives, http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs ccxlii “Yucca Mountain cost estimate rises to $96 billion”, Aug 6, 2008, http://www.world-nuclear-news.org ccxliii Steve Tetreault, “Federal panel to examine nuclear waste storage”, Las Vegas Review Journal, Jan 30, 2010, http://www.lvrj.com ccxliv “Yucca Mountain cost estimate rises to $96 billion”, Aug 6, 2008, http://www.world-nuclear-news.org ccxlv “The Financial Risks of <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power”, Decommissioning Costs, Greenpeace; “Everything you want to know about <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power”, <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power Education, http://nuclearinfo.net ccxlvi Steve Thomas, cited in: Mycle Schneider et. al., “The World <strong>Nuclear</strong> Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 44. ccxlvii “Economics of new nuclear power plants”, Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org ccxlviii Bruce Biewald & David White, “Stranded <strong>Nuclear</strong> Waste: Implications of Electric Industry Deregulation for <strong>Nuclear</strong> Plant Retirements and Funding Decommissioning and Spent Fuel”, Jan 15, 1999, http://www.synapse-energy.com ccxlix “Experts: Three latest industry setbacks further dim nuclear 'renaissance', taxpayer-backed loan guarantees can’t fix fundamental problems with new reactors”, Dec 16, 2009, www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/nuclear4.pdf ccl Steve Thomas, “The Economics of <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power”, Dec 2005, http://www.nirs.org, p. 29. ccli Ibid., p. 18. cclii Mycle Schneider, et al., “The World <strong>Nuclear</strong> Industry Status Report 2009”, op. cit., p. 46. ccliii Ibid., p. 58. ccliv Ibid., p. 58; Steve Thomas, “Can nuclear power plants be built in Britain without public subsidies and guarantees?”, op. cit., p. 16. cclv Steve Thomas, “The Economics of <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power”, Dec 2005, http://www.nirs.org, p. 11; Mycle Schneider, et al., ibid., p. 56. cclvi “<strong>Nuclear</strong> energy essential for India: Manmohan Singh”, March 24, 2008, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal cclvii “N-power the new green fuel, says PM's scientific adviser”, August 13, 2009, http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews cclviii “Canadian <strong>Nuclear</strong> Association clings to inaccurate, unsupported claims”, Sept 30, 2010, http://www.northumberlandview.ca cclix Helen Caldicott, <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, Melbourne University Press, 2006, pp. 8-9. cclx Ibid., p. 9. cclxi Helen Caldicott, “<strong>Nuclear</strong> Power is the Problem, Not a Solution”, April 15, 2005, Australian, http://www.helencaldicott.com cclxii Jan Willem Storm van Leeuwen, “<strong>Nuclear</strong> power – the energy balance”, http://www.stormsmith.nl; Helen Caldicott, <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power is not the answer to Global Warming or anything else, op. cit., p. 6. cclxiii “World Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2005”, World Resources Institute, http://www.wri.org cclxiv Ibid. cclxv Ibid. cclxvi The IEA is an intergovernmental organisation which acts as energy policy advisor to 28 member countries. cclxvii “<strong>Energy</strong> Technology Perspectives 2008”, IEA/OECD, June 2008, cited in: “<strong>Nuclear</strong> power: a dangerous waste of time”, Greenpeace, Jan 2009, http://www.greenpeace.org; also cited in Praful Bidwai, “No global 'nuclear renaissance', only limited nuclear power expansion in India”, March 25, 2010. http://www.prafulbidwai.org cclxviii Praful Bidwai, “No global 'nuclear renaissance', only limited nuclear power expansion in India”, ibid. cclxix Estimate made in: “Getting Serious about <strong>Nuclear</strong> Power”, Greenpeace, www.greenpeace.org and “<strong>Nuclear</strong> power: a dangerous waste of time “, Greenpeace, Jan 2009, http://www.greenpeace.org cclxx Bill Dougherty, senior scientist, Stockholm Environmental Institute, cited in: “<strong>Nuclear</strong> Power and Children’s Health”, Symposium Proceedings, Chicago, Illinois, Oct 15-16, 2004, http://www.helencaldicott.com/childrenshealth_proc.pdf 188
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