Nuclear power safe, inexpensive and environmentallyfriendly, says Bush

President George W. Bush touted nuclear power as a safe, inexpensive and environmentally-friendly way to meet America's growing energy needs.

"Nuclear power is abundant and affordable," the US President said during a brief stop at a nuclear power station here. "It is a really important way to meet our goals, which is to have abundant, affordable, clean, and safe sources of energy," the US president said at the Limerick Generating Station. "Once you get the plant up and running, the operating costs of these plants are significantly lower than other forms of electricity plants, which means the energy is affordable," Bush said. The US president lamented that a new nuclear power plant hasn't been built "in a long period of time" in America, and said that the time is ripe to change that. "For the sake of economic security and national security, the United States of America must aggressively move forward with the construction of nuclear power plants," Bush said, adding that there is even a strong environmental argument for doing so.
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"People in our country are rightly concerned about greenhouse gases and the environment, and I can understand why," he said. "Nuclear power will help us deal with the issue of greenhouse gases. "Without nuclear energy," the president continued, "carbon dioxide emissions would have been 28 percent greater in the electricity industry in 2004. "Without nuclear power, we would have had an additional 700 million tons a year of carbon dioxide, and that's nearly equal to the annual emissions from 136 million passenger cars," said the president. "Nuclear power helps us protect the environment." © 2006 AFP