Canada to boost nuclear power to fight climate change

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Canada, the second largest producer of uranium, is expanding its nuclear energy production and wants other nations to do the same in the fight against global warming, public broadcaster CBC said Thursday.

The move marks a turnaround in policy. When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government unveiled its climate strategy just last December, nuclear energy was not even mentioned

In May, Canada is expected to promote nuclear energy at a forum in Denmark, seizing the opportunity to "place nuclear energy at the center of global efforts to fight climate change," Natural Resources Parliamentary Secretary Kim Rudd said in a speech quoted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC).

"The CEM (Clean Energy Ministerial) meets again in Copenhagen in May and we have ensured that nuclear energy has its place as part of a broad and high-level discussion on a global transition to a low-carbon economy," she said.

Although nuclear energy does not emit greenhouse gases like the fossil fuels that cause global warming, it is controversial because of the toxic waste produced.

Source(s): AFP