Meanwhile in Germany:
Where is nuclear fossil free? Show me the unranium tree please.
Even though it certainly isn’t renewable, Uranium is not a fossil fuel. That would imply it’s made with the remains of dead organisms.
While all power plants have a one time carbon cost to build and decommission, there is a continuous carbon cost to mining nuclear fuel. I think that’s what GP was hinting at.
Nuclear fuel lasts so long in modern reactors that it’s kinda a silly point though.
What you need to be looking at is lifetime carbon costs per kWh, that’s the only real meaningful comparison.
It’s even worse than fossil fuel:
Carbondioxide has its natural circle, if we stop burning fossil fuels nature can remove carbondioxide by itself.
This does not work for uranium or plutonium, and the pathetic tries to get it into a circle have polluted e. g. Sellafield UK and other countrisides.
Uranium is a radioactive element. Part of the periodic table. Not organic. It was made by exploding stars mainly if my memory serves me right
Show me the rare earth tree for solar panels, or the carbon fiber tree for windmills.
You get that a “carbon fibre tree” is literally just a tree right?
(also, wind turbines tend to be made out of much cheaper glass fibre. Admittedly this does not grow on trees, but unless you’re willing to ban windows and home insulation too it doesn’t make that much sense to complain about it.)
The lobby green washed it, that’s how.
The term fossil free is just easier to accomplish, we should be using environment friendly, because that’s the goal.
The last time i checked, producing environmental dangerous trash for millenniums isn’t environment friendly.
Even in the best case it’s a bad solution, but now they are really really safe, not like before, trust me bro
