If the NEI's numbers are right, this would result in hundreds of millions of dollars in subsidies for every reactor constructed. The Clinton administration has said it doesn't believe this amount is substantial enough to prompt nations to build new reactors. Only in Washington, D.C., could a sum this large be considered insubstantial. Creating nuclear power is an inherently dangerous activity that is neither clean nor sustainable. In fact, nuclear power is not even sustainable in this, the wealthiest of nations.
Nuclear power is in decline in the United States.
U.S. utilities have canceled almost as many nuclear reactors as they have constructed. No nuclear reactors have been ordered and subsequently completed in the U.S. since 1973. The United Nations and its member states should not be so gullible as to believe the propagandists' claims that nuclear power can be used to address global warming. The inclusion of nuclear power in the CDM is based more upon political considerations than on the science of global warming abatement. Any attempt to foist this failed technology upon unsuspecting nations under the guise of sustainable development is unconscionable and runs the risk of scuttling the Kyoto protocol.