Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments is an advocate of left-leaning climate policy. The Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments has opposed the use of zero carbon nuclear energy. ¹

Opposition to Nuclear Energy

The web page of the Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments has featured a statement opposing the use of hydrocarbon energy that includes a section alleging that nuclear energy posed “serious risks to human health.” The page referred readers to a report from Physicians for Social Responsibility that denounced the use of nuclear power as “dirty” and “dangerous.” ²

Nuclear power plants produce no carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gas emissions, and as of 2021 accounted for 19 percent of American electricity production—the largest source of zero carbon electricity in the United States. ³ An October 2018 proposal from The Nature Conservancy noted that zero-carbon nuclear plants produced 7.8 percent of total world energy output and recommended reducing carbon emissions by increasing nuclear capacity to 33 percent of total world energy output. ⁴

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1. “Energy and Health.” Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. Accessed August 1, 2023. https://envirn.org/energy-and-health/
2. “Energy and Health.” Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments. Accessed August 1, 2023. https://envirn.org/energy-and-health/
3. “Nuclear explained.” U.S. Energy Information Administration. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/us-nuclear-industry.php
4. “The Science of Sustainability.” The Nature Conservancy. October 13, 2018. Accessed July 25, 2023. https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/the-science-of-sustainability/