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This paper has been prepared as a contribution to the growing debate concerning the evolution of viable alternative energy futures. We bring to it certain biases, the preeminent one being our agreement with the World Council of Churches on the ethical requirement that alternative futures on a global basis be “just and sustainable.” In this contribution to the dialogue and with this ethical bias we argue basically for a process by which one may objectively analyze the desirability of future energy goals. To us this process includes an equitable assessment of risks, a formulation strategy that is realistic, and an explicit consideration of the uncertainties of the current data base and those that always exist when one looks to the future [l–3].
An earlier version of this work was supported in part by funding from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy. The authors themselves, however, bear total responsibility for the present paper.
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Forbes, I.A., Turnage, J.C. (1985). Exclusive Paths and Difficult Choices. In: Ott, K.O., Spinrad, B.I. (eds) Nuclear Energy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4589-3_4
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