Nuclear power is not clean. The green washing of the nuke industry in this century is one of the most amazing feats of public disinformation I have ever witnessed. Any energy source that produces dangerous and polluting WASTE, is not clean. The uranium mining industry has a wretched history of environmental, public health, and human rights disasters. No, nuclear is not clean. Not when the environment is destroyed, people are made sick, and indigenous communities in Niger and the U.S. are displaced by the production of the fuel for these reactors.

Nuclear is not an economically feasible solution to climate change. A nuclear reactor has not been built in the U.S. for decades. That is because it is just too expensive. The nuclear industry relies heavily on tax payer money just to remain competitive. The nuclear industry has had the time to develop competitive technologies and has simply failed to create a product that can survive in an open market. Rather than bailing the nuclear industry out, it should be left to the market to decide. The full cost of nuclear, considering the whole fuel cycle is so mind boggling it is hardly understood by scientists. Energy Secretary Chu openly admitted that he didn't understand the full cost of nuclear. The amount of new reactors that would need to be built is one every couple of years to even come close to offsetting carbon emissions. The cost to do that would be enormous and I don't know of a single developer that even has the capacity of funding to do that kind of thing. If the government and private industry were to start throwing the amount of money it wastes on nuclear research and development at Truly clean, renewable, and sustainable forms of energy we could overcome this problem. A country free of carbon and nuclear is attainable.