> Nuclear is clean by the criteria that is applied to energy these days [...] Sure, it generates nuclear waste that must be stored, but it doesn't uncontrollabl

> Nuclear is clean by the criteria that is applied to energy these days [...] Sure, it generates nuclear waste that must be stored, but it doesn't uncontrollably emit greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Whether nuclear is clean or not depends on whether you're looking inside or outside of the can. From the outside it's clean, because the "non-clean" part is very well contained inside the reactor and/or fuel pools and/or dry storage casks. But if that barrier is ever breached (and a lot of the cost and complexity of nuclear is because of all the work necessary to keep it intact at all times), you mix the inside with the outside, and nuclear is no longer clean. Sure, it would still not produce greenhouse gases (other than all the concrete necessary to build the plant, but that applies to other kinds of power plants too), but it's hard to argue that uncontained toxic radioactive heavy metals are "clean".