It’s interesting to me that the conversation has shifted so far from ecological footprinting to carbon footprinting. I don’t think the Navajo Nation would agree that nuclear energy creates less emissions that coal. The mining and end life of nuclear energy is just too toxic for me to ever consider it clean or green.
Of course, I also have an issue with hydropower, so 🤷🏻
The question was whether or not nuclear is clean or green. To which my answer is “no”, but “better than fossil fuels”. If we were to shut down all the nuclear power plants in the world today, much of the world would switch to burning more fossil fuels because in much of the world it’s still the most cheapest form of energy. Someone else in this thread already mentioned it, but fossil fuel energy facilities/sources should be decommissioned first before nuclear.
It’s interesting to me that the conversation has shifted so far from ecological footprinting to carbon footprinting. I don’t think the Navajo Nation would agree that nuclear energy creates less emissions that coal. The mining and end life of nuclear energy is just too toxic for me to ever consider it clean or green.
Of course, I also have an issue with hydropower, so 🤷🏻
The question was whether or not nuclear is clean or green. To which my answer is “no”, but “better than fossil fuels”. If we were to shut down all the nuclear power plants in the world today, much of the world would switch to burning more fossil fuels because in much of the world it’s still the most cheapest form of energy. Someone else in this thread already mentioned it, but fossil fuel energy facilities/sources should be decommissioned first before nuclear.