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According to the Department of Energy, nuclear energy creates minimal waste, has a small land footprint, and is cleaner for the air. https://www.energy.gov/ne/

According to the Department of Energy, nuclear energy creates minimal waste, has a small land footprint, and is cleaner for the air. https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-reasons-why-nuclear-clean-and-sustainable https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/3-reasons-why-nuclear-cle... Interestingly: “ All of the used nuclear fuel produced by the U.S. nuclear energy industry over the last 60 years could fit on a football field at a depth of less than 10 yards!”

afterburner 6y ago
Cleaner than than the air compared to what? Coal? No shit. How about the cost compared to solar and wind? Oh, don't want to talk about that? I wonder how much nuclear waste solar and wind creates.
- p_l 6y ago
  Interestingly enough, CO2g per W of energy is considered much higher (4 times?) for PV than for nuclear, at least in common statistics used to evaluate power plant emissions (12 gCO2eq/kWh for nuclear, 11g for wind, 24g for hydro and 45g for solar - source:IPCC2014). Most nuclear waste can be reprocessed and burned further down (that's the strategy that was used by France). A big issue with that is the effective voiding of non-proliferation treaty by, among other, USA - nothing scares them more than a country running plutonium economy, thus proposals of designs with remote kill switches operated by USA and other imperialistic moves like it.
- throwaway69123 6y ago
  Nuclear waste is nuclear fuel
einpoklum 6y ago
> According to the Department of Energy Isn't that the department that corrupt US politicians staff with people who are partial to the interests of the industry they're supposed to regulate? Anyway, the link seems rather propagandistic. Let the Secretary of Energy bury a football field's worth of nuclear waste next to his town.