Many countries around the world taking a fresh look at nuclear power. important cause of what has come be called the global nuclear renaissance the prospect of severe disruptions the earth’s climate brought by continued increases in greenhouse emissions, primarily from combustion of fossil fuels. Nuclear occupies a unique position in debate over global climate change the only carbon-free energy source is already contributing to world supplies on a large scale and is also expandable with few inherent . These attributes are regularly by nuclear energy advocates now, increasingly, by some anti-nuclear activists, even other environmentalists remain opposed to this technology.
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Lester et al. (2009) studied this question.