Cheney Sees Benefits in Nuclear Plants
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Vice President Dick Cheney said his energy policy team is considering the future of U.S. nuclear power and that new nuclear plants could reduce greenhouse gases better than a “seriously flawed” Kyoto global warming treaty.
“If you want to do something about 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’s “Hardball” program.
The 1997 Kyoto treaty seeks to limit industrial nations’ emissions of greenhouse gases. Cheney said the Bush administration opposes it because it limits nations unequally.
Cheney is heading a task force to develop a long-term strategy to increase U.S. energy security.
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