The Future of Nuclear Power

• Nuclear technology, despite the challenges it faces, is an important option for Malaysia and the world to meet future energy needs without emitting carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other atmospheric pollutants. 
• Other options include increased efficiency, renewable, and sequestration. It is believe that all options should be preserved as nations develop strategies that provide energy while meeting important environmental challenges. 
• The nuclear power option will only be exercised, however, if the technology demonstrates better economics, improved safety, successful waste management, and low proliferation risk, and if public policies place a significant value on electricity production that does not produce CO₂.

• Over the next 50 years, unless patterns change dramatically, energy production and use will contribute to global warming through large scale greenhouse gas emissions — hundreds of billions of tonnes of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide.  
• Nuclear power could be one option for reducing carbon emissions. The generation of electricity from fossil fuels, notably natural gas and coal, is a major and growing contributor to the emission of carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas that contributes significantly to global warming.