Whats being done to reduce the U.S. emission of greenhouse gases?
Nuclear Energy: America’s Number One Reason for Greenhouse Gas Reduction The Clinton administration’s Climate Change Action Plan says nuclear energy “will continue to play a key role in limiting CO2 emissions for electricity production.” That’s an understatement: Nuclear energy is the single largest contributor towards achieving the administration’s goal of stabilizing greenhouse gas emission at 1990 levels by 2000, an industry analysis shows. Increased generation from nuclear power plants through 1994 already has reducted annual carbon emissions by 25 million metric tons below the baseline value for the period of 1987-90. That reduction is more than double the 11-million metric ton target for greenhouse gas reductions from the energy supply sector in the administration’s plan. “Every one percent improvement in nuclear plant capacity factor will further reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly two million metric tons a year,” said Marvin Fertel, NEI’s vice president for nuclear econom
