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New York’s Clean Energy Standard includes nuclear as “clean “renewable”

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This Clean Energy Standard is  a joke. Nuclear power masquerades as clean and green, when it is clear that nuclear power is neither. While the operating reactor produces minimal emissions, it is part of a highly carbon emitting chain of processes and transport . Uranium mining, milling, conversion, enrichment, fuel fabrication, reactor building, waste pool and canister building, reactor decommissioning, waste burial –   all steps producing greenhouse gases.

And that other amazing lie – that nuclear power is “renewable”.
“Clean” – no mention of the unsolved toxic wastes problem, nor of the ever present risk of catastrophe.
And even with all this political help – nuclear power will still be uneconomic.
renewable-lie

Adoption of Clean Energy Standard Acknowledges Nuclear as Clean, Green Energy, Oswego County Today, Aug 4, 2016,  In passing the Clean Energy Standard (CES), New York is now the groundbreaking world leader in recognizing nuclear power’s crucial role in our energy portfolio and in the protection of our environment

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