Here is the Resolution"H.RES. II Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal" "Green New Deal FINAL"
My search in this Resolution for the words "nuclear" "nuclear power" "nuclear energy" brought up nothing. Nor did these words come up when I scrolled through and read the entire Resolution. I have seen many comments in other articles about how nuclear would be dealt with in the Green New Deal in other articles, e.g. "The plan also does not explicitly exclude some major forms of low-emissions electricity - mainly, nuclear energy and hydropower - as some observers worried it would."
Also that the Green New Deal would "transition away from nuclear power."
"Ocasio-Cortez also clarified that under the plan, the U.S. will not invest in new nuclear power plants, but existing generation stations would be allowed to continue operating at the end of the 10-year time frame. Nuclear power plants generate 20 percent of the nation's electric power and 63 percent of its zero-carbon power.
Nuclear power may be carbon free, but the progressive creators of the sweeping Green New Deal climate plan to stave off a global warming disaster have some bad news for boosters of atomic energy: No nukes allowed.
The lofty environmental plan that seeks to eliminate global warming causing greenhouse gas emissions is being unveiled Thursday by progressive newcomer Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
It explicitly makes clear that there is "no space" for nuclear power amid a goal to dramatically expand"
The response that we must keep nuclear power plants open in order to maintain jobs of the people who work there, can easily be refuted by an important approach taken by the Green New Deal - that is, by creating many, milllions of new jobs. Some of those new jobs presumably would be in solar and wind energy and hopefully would be available for former nuclear power plants workers, who wanted to be so trained.. Moreover, we need people who know the plants to work on decommissioning them and we need people who know the plants to be there to guard the spent nuclear fuel rod.
Finally, there can be enough wind and solar to stop the climate crisis, if the government becomes serious about turning around the climate crisis. Moreover, Tesla'sbatteries storage will help provide sufficient electricity (when the wind is not blowing and the sun is not shining.) The Green New Deal must not include nuclear power. We must close all existing nuclear power plants now and must not build any new plants, either with old or new technologies.
(Article changed on February 8, 2019 at 21:39)
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