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Merrick
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Re: WTF?
Mar 12, 2011, 19:58
PMM wrote:
I have to admit, I've been ambivalent about nuclear power. On one side there are the obvious risks, overruns and long term unsustainability of it. Yet people like James Lovelock and Mark Lynas have spoken of it as the only viable way of transitioning to a sustainable way of living.


Thing is, it's not transitional. It takes ten years to get the plant onstream (during which time we could've got a lot of renewables up; running and delivering for ages); it is lower carbon than fossils but still takes a hell of a lot of high-carbon input from fossil energy and concrete; it relies on uranium that (like oil) is concentrated in a few places and leads to appalling wars in those areas as demand rises; it has always been more expensive than promised even including the effective subsidy of selling many byproducts to the weapons industry.

As a climate change solution, it's the least bang for the most bucks outside of fossils

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