“Rather than coddling the nuclear industry with more taxpayer subsidies and less regulation the federal government should replace nuclear reactors with energy efficiency and other clean, renewable sources of electricity. A study conducted by the five national energy laboratories in November 2000 for the U.S. Department of Energy found that renewable energy could supply at least 7.5 percent of U.S. electricity by 2010. Such an expansion in renewable technologies would allow for the phase-out of the most dangerous reactors in the U.S. When combined with increases in energy efficiency the potential to phase-out
nuclear power is even greater.”