Clinton climate plan sees nuclear power kept as it is

Title: Clinton climate plan sees nuclear power kept as it is

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President Bill Clinton released his administration's Climate Change Action Plan on October 19, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the United States in the year 2000 not only to 1990 levels, as urged at the Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992, but slightly below that point. The plan, however, relies heavily on voluntary action by energy producers and consumers to achieve the reduction of 109 million metric tons of carbon equivalent below the emission level currently projected for 2000. It also includes sparse references to nuclear power, and goes no further than an endorsement of the continued operation of the current generation of power reactors.

Publication Date:: Wed Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1993

OSTI Identifier:: 6934220

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Nuclear News (La Grange Park, Illinois); (United States)

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 36:15; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5574

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; NUCLEAR POWER; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT; RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL; US DOE; US NRC; MANAGEMENT; NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS; POWER; US ORGANIZATIONS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT; 290600* - Energy Planning & Policy- Nuclear Energy; 293000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Policy, Legislation, & Regulation

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  abstractNote = {President Bill Clinton released his administration's Climate Change Action Plan on October 19, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from the United States in the year 2000 not only to 1990 levels, as urged at the Earth Summit in Brazil in 1992, but slightly below that point. The plan, however, relies heavily on voluntary action by energy producers and consumers to achieve the reduction of 109 million metric tons of carbon equivalent below the emission level currently projected for 2000. It also includes sparse references to nuclear power, and goes no further than an endorsement of the continued operation of the current generation of power reactors.},

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