Here is an article that talks of a new study that shows nuclear to be not green, and the study did not even take into account the huge cost of decommissioning the plants after thier 40 years of production which must be done with robots because of the extreme radiation. The author apparently also has not been informed of the new Solar Voltaic panels that bring the cost of solar equal to coal plants.
South African solar research eclipses rest of the world
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=116&art_id=vn20060211110132138C184427
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How green is nuclear power?
By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
"Saying nuclear is carbon-free is not true," says Uwe Fritsche, a researcher at
the Öko Institut in Darmstadt, Germany, who has conducted a life-cycle analysis
of the plants.
Nuclear power has more than just a little greenhouse gas attached to it, when
mining uranium ore, refining and enriching fuel, building the plant, and operating
it are included. A big 1,250 megawatt plant produces the equivalent of 250,000
tons of carbon dioxide a year during its life, Dr. Fritsche says.
Officials in the nuclear power industry say references to carbon-free energy in their
promotions refer only to the power-plant operation – and are not intended to describe
carbon emissions during the entire nuclear life cycle.
....new reactors gives two to 10 times less climate solution for the amount of
coal-power displaced than if you had bought cheaper solutions with the same dollars."
Found on the Climate Crisis Coalition website: http://www.climatecrisiscoalition.org/blog/
Click the link below for the entire article:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0307/p01s04-sten.html?page=1
Original: Nuclear Power is Green - NOT