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Ralph Nader published Nuclear Power Is Not the
Answer in Common Dreams on
September 11, 2007. Nuclear is still no answer to anything
but a deep death wish, or perhaps to greed and a drive to dominate
that supercede any and all other
My favorite paragraph:
"Then the big break came---global
warming fed by the burning of coal, oil and gas.
Voilá, atomic energy, its proponents declared, produces no
greenhouse gases (apart from massive coal fuel emissions to enrich
the uranium). Nuclear power can be the answer.&rdquo
This became the hyped theme for millions of dollars in
advertisements and propaganda reports."
The USEC Nuclear Enrichment Plant, the sole nuclear enrichment
plant currently operating in the U.S.A., burns Peabody Coal, in
Paducah, Kentucky, on the Ohio River, as it flows into the
Mississippi River, in the heart
of Peabody Coal Operations.
USEC imports much of the uranium it enriches, in Paducah,
from Canada, which is, nationally, home to the world's largest
known uranium reserves, most of which are in northern Saskatchewan.
Uranium
mining, milling, and transport, are, like uranium enrichment, also
fossil fuel intensive processes, cause for more of CO2
emissions and global warming.
However, exporting uranium for nuclear weapons manufacture is a
violation of federal Canadian law, calling for stiff
penalties, so, if Canadian law is being enforced, we can at
least be certain that, no matter how fossil fuel intensive and thus
global warming Paducah's nuclear enrichment process may be, no
uranium enriched in Paducah ever has been or ever will be used to
build any nuclear weapons in the U.S.A.'s unparalleled nuclear
arsenal.
Is anyone confident that Canada is enforcing this federal law,
or its stiff federal penalties, against exporting uranium from
Canada to make nuclear bombs?
I hope that Ralph Nader will let the rest of us know how
confident he is, about the U.S.A.'s use of Canada's uranium
exports, before this 2008 presidential campaign concludes.
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Nader Against Nuclear 
