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Originally Posted by 04_Sentra
Nuclear doesn't produce climate changing emissions.
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It doesn't use non-renewable fossil fuel, but that's about the only thing nuclear energy has got going for it.
That's something of an understatement.
The number of accidents with both the nuclear installations and their waste may be low, but their potential is huge.
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but it is stored not released into the environment
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Uranium and the like are mined and refined as well, and it usually isn't a pretty work environment.
Waste is always stored in the environment, no matter how good you try to contain it. While it's not regularly released into the environment, it's a perpetual threat to the environment.
There have been spills caused by accidents or improper storage.
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Don't get me wrong I'm not pro-nuke, I'm pro-efficiency and solar, but in the short term increased use of nuclear can green the grid until production capacity from renewables (wind, solar, etc.) can catch up.
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That's the only use of nuclear energy that I can agree to.
The installations (and the waste) are there, so let's use them to the full of their possibilities while renewable energy sources are developed and put to good use.
But I wouldn't call that making the grid cleaner.