"Nuclear can no longer support climate change needs and targets"

According to an article in the November 20, 2008 edition of Nature, the financial crisis will postpone if not cancel new nuclear power plant projects. Journalist Geoff Brumfiel reports that the International Energy Agency's recommendation to increase the world's current nuclear capacity by 80% would set an impossible task financially, a view reflected by Matthew Bunn, a nuclear policy expert at Harvard who said that given the bleak financial outlook and the limited production capabilities of power plant vendors, "nuclear power can no longer support climate change needs and targets." (Nature is accessible on line to subscribers only.)