Insurance Companies and the Nuclear Power Debate

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Insurance Companies and the Nuclear Power Debate
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Why Nuclear?

• Property Insurance
• Global Warming
• Rising Ocean Levels
• Health Insurance
• Pollution and Carcinogens

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Global Warming
Greenhouse Gas Concentration (1800s-2000) Anthropogenic Sources GWP Proportion of Total Effect
Carbon Dioxide 280 - 370 ppm Fossil Fuel Burning, Deforestation 1 60
Methane 0.75 - 1.75 ppm Agriculture, Fuel leakage 21 20
Halocarbons 0 - 0.7 ppb Refrigerants 3400 14
Nitrous Oxide 275 - 310 ppb Agriculture, Combustion 310 6
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Global Warming

• Rising Ocean Levels

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Carbon Dioxide

• Prime Pollutant and Greenhouse Gas
• Global CO2 Emissions will be 50 higher in 2010
  than 1990
• If all Nuclear replaced by Coal, CO2 Emissions
  would rise by 1/3

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Carbon Dioxide