[New post] The hypocrisy of Europe pretending that nuclear power is the ”solution” for not depending on Russian gas.
Christina Macpherson posted: " With breath-taking blindness or stupidity (or both) European ''experts'' are saying that Europe can become ''emergy independent'' and no longer rely on Russia's gas and oil, - by turning to nuclear power. What a load of rubbish! They must know" nuclear-news
With breath-taking blindness or stupidity (or both) European ''experts'' are saying that Europe can become ''emergy independent'' and no longer rely on Russia's gas and oil, - by turning to nuclear power.
What a load of rubbish! They must know full well that Russia dominates the global nuclear industry.
By turning to nuclear power, European countries will become even more dependent - on Russia and Kazakhstan for uranium, on Russia for nuclear technology and expertise.
That is blatant hypocrisy. But it's not the only bit of hypocrisy.
The other bit is that nuclear power:
(a) in its full fuel cycle - from uranium mining through to toxic waste disposal, emits lots of carbon and increases global heating.
(b) even if it worked against global heating, nuclear power takes so very long to set up, that it would come into operation much too late to be any use.
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