The “Nuclear Industry as Climate Hero” Spin, Spin and Spun again doesn’t make it true…here is why.

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The following is a message from Steamboat Andy he draws our attention to a great book by Kristin Shrader-Frechette which exposes the industry lies about their heroic climate saviour status used as justification for diabolic new build.

“ok, so at the heart of the climate change case for expanding atomic energy is the climate necessity argument,the claim that, because nuclear generation of electricity is carbon free, it is needed to help address CC, Note that the nuke industry have trimmed the figures down to including only stage 7 of a 14 stage nuclear fuel cycle, These stages are

(1) mining uranium ore- or leaching it out,by using hundreds of metric tons of chemicals such as sulfuric acid, nitric acid and ammonia.
(2) milling the ore to extract the roughly 0.2 percent uranium oxide from it.
(3) converting the uranium oxide to gaseous uranium hexafluoride by means of fluorine.
(4) enriching…

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January 5, 2017 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized

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