woblog » sustainability http://www.whiteoctober.co.uk/blog great stuff about the web Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:53:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Why nuclear power is not a sustainable source of low carbon energy http://www.whiteoctober.co.uk/blog/2008/07/08/why-nuclear-power-is-not-a-sustainable-source-of-low-carbon-energy/ http://www.whiteoctober.co.uk/blog/2008/07/08/why-nuclear-power-is-not-a-sustainable-source-of-low-carbon-energy/#comments Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:31:35 +0000 Dave http://www.whiteoctober.co.uk/blog/?p=87 An interesting article by John Busby from a newsgroup I subscribe to : csrblokes arguing that nuclear fails as a sustainable energy source on 2 counts:

  1. To meet global energy demands today (let alone in the coming decades) we would need 20,000 new nuclear power stations, and there simply isn’t enough Uranium around to supply them with fuel – i.e. not sustainable
  2. Uranium mining and refining emits more carbon than it saves for all but the very purest of ores – i.e. not a low carbon energy source

It’s a pretty convincing and damning article and makes a farce of this government’s energy policy. Read the abridged version here:

http://www.depletion-scotland.org.uk/jb_nuclear.htm

and the full version here:

http://www.after-oil.co.uk/nuclear.htm

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