[NeilBlanchard]

Organic chemistry can make plastics from soybeans and calabar beans, etc., so synthetic oil could easily come from many different renewable sources.

On nuclear, the uranium has to be mined and enriched, and transported, so the fuel has some carbon footprint. Building the power plant with lots of concrete -- which has a large carbon footprint because it has to be "baked" for a long period of time. And the plant has to be decommissioned at the end of it's (~50 year?) life span, which adds some more carbon, and the spent fuel has to be processed and stored for extremely long periods of time.

That, and the potential for terrorism with any radioactive nuclear material is a very big drawback for nuclear power.

I think we need to use deep drilling for geothermal heat to boil water, instead of nuclear power.