| The Planetary Price of Uranium |
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| Monday, 30 June 2008 | ||||
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Anti-nuclear.net of Australia created the diagram below, exploding the myth of carbon-free nuclear below. I don't often participate in global warming panic because it's become the excuse for so much environmental crime, including the uranium mining boom and new nuclear enrichment plant and nuclear power plant boom, with government subsidies, all based on the myth of carbon-free nuclear. John McCain and George Bush both talk about climate change and carbon-free nuclear, as does Barack Obama, and, as do most of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, especially Nanc Pelosi, even as they vote another $165 billion to indefinitely carry on the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars whose cost could, I'm sure, by now, have funded a global Solar New Deal. This chart makes it very clear that the price of uranium and the whole nulcear cycle is man-made carbon emissions. So, if man-made carbon emissions are indeed hastening global warming, then one planetary price---one of many vert high planetary, and human, prices--of uranium mining, and the whole nuclear cycle, is hastening global warming. ---Annie,
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As well as radioactive wastes, the uranium/nuclear industry releases greenhouse gases, increasing global warming. At successive steps in the uranium/nuclear cycle, carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere. This is shown above, with black dots as the carbon rising. The industry also usees enormous amounts of fuel - as electricity and in the huge amounts of oil in transporting uranium, nuclear fuel and wastes.
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