Nuclear power is actually free of CO2 emissions. It's easy to see: one could use the electricity to make synthetic fuels from air and water. (Capture of CO2

Nuclear power is actually free of CO2 emissions. It's easy to see: one could use the electricity to make synthetic fuels from air and water. (Capture of CO2 sounds like a difficult problem, but ammonia and hydrazine would definitely work.) If the supply chain uses synfuels, nuclear power is emission free. However, as long as a coal fired power plant is operating somewhere, you achieve a better result by using fossil fuels for the supply chain, feeding the electricity into the grid and saving more CO2 emissions elsewhere. By the way, Sovacool's basic argument is that nuclear isn't CO2 free because the grid isn't nuclear enough. Something along the lines of "if we built more nuclear plants, we'd have to build more old enrichment plants and more coal plants to power them". In other words, he's too stupid or too crooked to correctly compute total derivatives.