Nuclear Energy

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4454468.stm

You know, if one is going to take a stand on an issue, any issue, be it private or public, it really should be common sense that such a stand or policy is one you want the world to follow.

Some things to know about nuclear energy:

http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=2257

-“… if we decided today to replace all fossil-fuel-generated electricity with nuclear power, there would only be enough economically viable uranium to fuel the reactors for three to four years.”

-“In the US, where much of the world's uranium is enriched, including Australia's, the enrichment facility at Paducah, Kentucky, requires the electrical output of two 1000-megawatt coal-fired plants, which emit large quantities of carbon dioxide, the gas responsible for 50per cent of global warming.”

-“In fact, the nuclear fuel cycle utilizes large quantities of fossil fuel at all of its stages - the mining and milling of uranium, the construction of the nuclear reactor and cooling towers, robotic decommissioning of the intensely radioactive reactor at the end of its 20 to 40-year operating lifetime, and transportation and long-term storage of massive quantities of radioactive waste.”

If that’s green, I’m Santa Clause’s wife.