Cheney: Nuclear plants a way to cut greenhouse gas

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@EARTHLINK.NET>]

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Cheney: Nuclear plants a way to cut greenhouse gas

  

WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney 

said on Wednesday new nuclear power plants are an answer for 

those "really serious" about reducing greenhouse gases, rather 

than a "seriously flawed" Kyoto treaty to fight global warming. 



"If you want to do something carbon dioxide emissions then you 

ought to build nuclear power plants. They don't emit any carbon 

dioxide. They don't emit greenhouse gases," Cheney said on 

MSNBC television's Hardball program. 



"If you're really serious about greenhouse gases, one of the 

solutions to that problem is to go back and let's take another 

another look at nuclear power, use that to generate electricity 

without having any adverse consequences," Cheney said.  



No permits to build a U.S. nuclear plants have granted since 1975, 

Cheney said. The 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear accident put a 

long-term chill on the industry. He said the energy policy panel he 

is heading for President George W. Bush would devote a chapter of 

its report with final recommendations to "the nuclear questions and 

whether or not we want to go forward." 



Cheney called "seriously flawed" the 1997 Kyoto treaty to fight 

global warming by reducing industrial-nation emissions of carbon 

dioxide and other "greenhouse gases" thought to cause global 

warming. "We do not support the approach of the Kyoto treaty," he 

said. 



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