The Nation - News from Sept. 25, 1988

Calling for greater emphasis on energy efficiency, conservation, renewable energy sources and natural gas, two public interest groups assailed nuclear power reactors as a solution to the “greenhouse effect,” the possible global warming trend related to the burning of fossil fuels. “Nuclear power cannot solve the problem,” said a report issued by theWashington-based Public Citizen and the Safe Energy Communication Council. Scott Peters, a spokesman for the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness, a nuclear industry group, responded that the only way growing energy needs can be met “is by using everything we can get our hands on--nuclear, coal, gas, solar, whatever we can find, including conservation. . . . “