Nuclear power: not clean, not cheap, not safe

Comment: Great Study, No to Nuke Power and No to Uranium Mining all over the World!

October 14, 2009

My students usually identify the seven fatal flaws in nuclear energy (''Nuclear power the way to cut emissions'', October 14) within 10 minutes of discussion:

1) the still unsolved problem of safely dealing with the radioactive waste;

2) the huge amounts of carbon released into the atmosphere during the mining, transport and processing of the ore;

3) the extraordinarily high costs of building the plants;

4) the massive amounts of water required for their operation;

5) hostile attack;

6) peak uranium and, finally, what all the advocates never mention,

7) the crippling costs of decommissioning the obsolete plants that will sit where they are until kingdom come.

Not clean. Not cheap. Not safe either for us or for countless generations to come.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/letters/nuclear-power-not-clean-not-cheap-not-safe-20091014-gxc9.html