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Nuclear Power is Not Economically Competitive- It is expensive.
Nuclear power could not survive in a competitive energy market without huge government subsidies. The massive costs of waste disposal, reactor decommissioning and accident liability end up being paid by taxpayers of the future.
Nuclear Power Does Produce Ozone-depleting Pollutants
The uranium fuel, reactor and waste chain includes mining, milling, fuel production, transport, plant construction, decommissioning, waste management, hauling and storage. Every one of these processes releases carbon dioxide.
Uranium mining is one of the most fossil fuel-dependent industrial operations.
Cfc 114, which escapes from the uranium enrichment plants in the country, is roughly 50 times more effective at destroying ozone that all other CFC's.
Nuclear Power is anything but safe.
Simply put, if it were safe, we would not have evacuation plans, evacuation sirens, potassium iodide pills, Radiological Emergency Response Plans, fallout shelters, emergency protective zones, decontamination centers at local hospitals, etc.
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A 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology white paper proposes two growth potentials for nuclear. The authors envisioned a “global growth scenario” (and a steady state growth scenario) with a base case of 1,000 giga- watts (GW) of nuclear capacity installed around the world by 2050.
Since all of the reactors in operation today would be shutdown by mid-century… …This proposal would require one new reactor to come online somewhere in the world every 15 days on average between 2010 and 2050.
If this were the case, Assuming a constant rate of growth, a repository with the capacity of Yucca Mountain (70,000 metric tons) would have to come online somewhere in the world every three to five and a half years in order to handle the waste that would be generated.
Nuclear power could not survive in a competitive energy market without huge government subsidies. The massive costs of waste disposal, reactor decommissioning and accident liability end up being paid by taxpayers of the future.
Nuclear Power Does Produce Ozone-depleting Pollutants
The uranium fuel, reactor and waste chain includes mining, milling, fuel production, transport, plant construction, decommissioning, waste management, hauling and storage. Every one of these processes releases carbon dioxide.
Uranium mining is one of the most fossil fuel-dependent industrial operations.
Cfc 114, which escapes from the uranium enrichment plants in the country, is roughly 50 times more effective at destroying ozone that all other CFC's.
Nuclear Power is anything but safe.
Simply put, if it were safe, we would not have evacuation plans, evacuation sirens, potassium iodide pills, Radiological Emergency Response Plans, fallout shelters, emergency protective zones, decontamination centers at local hospitals, etc.
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A 2003 Massachusetts Institute of Technology white paper proposes two growth potentials for nuclear. The authors envisioned a “global growth scenario” (and a steady state growth scenario) with a base case of 1,000 giga- watts (GW) of nuclear capacity installed around the world by 2050.
Since all of the reactors in operation today would be shutdown by mid-century… …This proposal would require one new reactor to come online somewhere in the world every 15 days on average between 2010 and 2050.
If this were the case, Assuming a constant rate of growth, a repository with the capacity of Yucca Mountain (70,000 metric tons) would have to come online somewhere in the world every three to five and a half years in order to handle the waste that would be generated.
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