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High time the media stopped the lie about nuclear energy being “clean”

 

a-cat-CANIt’s high time that the media came clean about nuclear energy being supposedly “clean”.  Nuclear proponents were hand in glove with the coal and oil interests for decades – denying global warming.  They’re still hand in glove, helping those dirty industries keep going until aven dirtier nuclear takes over.
 
The climate argument is a hoax. So they nuclear reactor itself produces few (not zero) carbon emissions. So we are supposed to ignore all the carbon emissions from uranium mining and milling, fuel conversion, fuel fabrication, reactor construction, and all the transport involved in this chain. Then there’ s the chain at the end  – the building of spent fuel pools, waste containers, then eventual tomb for the wastes, and the dismantling, transport and burial of the dead reactor. The whole chain is not only carbon intensive, it’s also dangerous, and a chain of targets for terrorism.  Time to stop the lies about nuclear solving climate change!
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Decline of US nuclear industry is accelerating “…..Over the past few years, US companies have closed or announced plans to close eight reactors with a combined capacity of 6300 MW. Fertel claimed that another 15 to 20 plants are at risk of closure over the next 5 to 10 years. ……

Over the past seven years, Exelon has lost $800 million operating its Quad Cities and Clinton nuclear plants in Illinois, and the energy company has said it can’t continue to sustain those losses. http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/magazine/physicstoday/news/10.1063/PT.5.1075

June 3, 2016 - Posted by | Christina's notes

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