misleading advice about nuclear solution to global warming

[miriam_e]

Please correct anybody who parrots the stupid statement that politicians and their pet news services keep making about nuclear power being any kind of solution to global warming. It is completely wrong.

A major part of greenhouse emissions come from vehicles. Nuclear power will make the world far more dangerous without helping vehicle emissions one tiny bit.

And as I mentioned in an earlier post: there is absolutely no way to ensure people return radioactive waste to "safe" storage. If they want to keep it to make bombs they will. The only safe solution is to not make it available in the first place. Leave it in the ground.

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[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

heheheh :)
Sorry about the long post. Can you tell I feel passionately about this?

Here is a little additional comment I didn't include in the previous bit. (What?!? More?!?)

One of the worst things to about nuclear power is that the armed forces love it, and of course this is why it keeps getting pushed forward as a possibility. Nuclear power is great for blowing people up, and for making armor-piercing shells. And nuclear power stations centralise power in a single place so needs a powerful security force to protect it, which is a really attractive thing for those who would sell such things.

Of course that's bad for the rest of us. We would be much better off with a distributed power system that can't be attacked, and which doesn't need a powerful security force to guard it. But our politicians don't represent us anymore. They represent the military and the corporations... and themselves.