The greener than thou demonstrators swarming Copenhagen this week should come to grips with an inconvenient truth: their old nemesis, nuclear power, may well emerge as a big winner in the effort to curb greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The industry got short shrift in the wake of the Kyoto Protocol, being excluded from most subsidy and carbon trading schemes. But any chance of reconciling electricity demand in the developing world with GHG reduction must give nuclear a big role.
本週雲集哥本哈根、競相爭「綠」的遊行示威者們，應該開始認真面對一個不那麼令人寬慰的事實：他們的死對頭——核能——很可能最終成爲遏制溫室氣體排放行動的最大贏家。京都議定書(Kyoto Protocol)之後，該行業一直受到冷遇，被排除在大多數補貼及碳交易計劃之外。但要想調和發展中國家電力需求與溫室氣體減排之間的矛盾，就必須讓核能扮演重要角色。
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