[GPSCC-chat] Euroopean Greens dissed Nuclear Energy.

[Cameron L. Spitzer]

I still think it's the wrong approach to this issue.
Folks who know what's involved with nuke fission power
already get that it's unsustainable, releases CO2
in the fuel cycle, etc. etc.  There's no need to convince
them further.
The remaining population isn't interested in CO2 or
radiation risks.  It conflicts with their belief system
in some way, so they just tune it out.  Some of these
folks can be reached with an economic argument.
Nuke fission is an economic scam.  It's not remotely
cost-competitive against other prime movers,
including solar.  The true costs must be socialized
in some way to make it work at all.
Forget "safety," we should be denouncing nuke fission
as a Socialist plot to rob the working man.


-Cameron



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>*Euroopean Greens dissed Nuclear Energy*.

>Some may wonder how Germany was able to spin the energy wheel around to 
>toss nuclear off the table.  I learned today (just today... shame on me) 
>that it was all the work of those pesky Greens.

>While waiting for the dentist to get around to extracting one of my 
>molars, I was reading /Clean Energy Nation/ by Jerry McNerney (my 
>Congressman) and Marty Cheek.  It was there, I found the following:

>    An analysis report title "Nuclear Power: The Energy Balance" was
>    prepared for the Green parties of the European Parliament by Jan
>    Willem Storm van Leeuwen and Philip Smith for the United Nations
>    Climate Conference in 2000.  Since then, they have updated their
>    report several times and they warn that the nuclear-power industry's
>    portrayal of nuclear energy as a solution to climate change might
>    not be quite on the mark. The authors state in their detailed study
>    that "the use of nuclear power causes, at the end of the road and
>    under the most favorable conditions, approximately one--third  as
>    much carbon dioxide (CO2) emission as gas fired electricity
>    production." 


>Those pesky Greens playing the game of tell the truth.

>McNerney and Cheek continue:

>    Then then warn us about the unsustainability of nuclear power.  "The
>    rich uranium ores required to achieve this reduction are, however,
>    so limited that if the entire present world electricity demand were
>    to be provided by nuclear power, these ores would be exhausted
>    within nine years.   Use of the remaining poorer ores in nuclear
>    reaction would produce more CO2 emissions that burning fossil fuels
>    directly. 

>This is the blunt statement of the truth that we need to be hearing from 
>Green leadership in the US.