Uranium and nuclear energy deliver positive environmental benefits
Countries assessing their energy requirements look favorably at uranium-fuelled nuclear power for a number of reasons, including its clean air, low-carbon emission characteristics.
Nuclear power is overall a low-carbon energy source which can help relieve climate effects of high-carbon emissions from transportation and standard coal-fired electricity generation.
The latest research shows that nuclear energy has the potential to avoid 180 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions up to 2100.
And because nuclear power stations do not emit air pollutants, nuclear energy can help offset the noxious emissions of other large-scale sources of pollution, like fossil-fuelled power plants and motor vehicles.
Uranium's environmental benefits will help drive increased demand
Policy-makers look to uranium-fuelled nuclear power for environmental and energy security reasons
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Lenzen report
Manfred Lenzen's review of the scientific literature on the development of all available electricity generation technologies. The report suggests renewables are limited and nuclear energy is the key low-carbon, low-pollution, baseload technology.
21U Highlights
Progress in implementing the uranium industry's stewardship program
The AUA's Principles of Uranium Stewardship were introduced a little over a year ago. This update describes some of the initiatives taken so far and the progress that has been made.
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