stefani asked:
burning fossil fuels, such as coal, is contributing to global climate change, including dramatic changes in Canadian arctic. Should we consider using nuclear power as a “green” energy source for canada?
plz give me reasons why we shouldn’t use nuclear power as a green energy source for canada.
Thx!
burning fossil fuels, such as coal, is contributing to global climate change, including dramatic changes in Canadian arctic. Should we consider using nuclear power as a “green” energy source for canada?
plz give me reasons why we shouldn’t use nuclear power as a green energy source for canada.
Thx!
I’m not anti-nuke, but (a) nuke plants are potential targets for terrorists(who will eventually discover that Canada also exists and is enough like America that they should hate it too), (b) Three Mile Island and Chernobyl happened and (c) sooner or later, you have to do something with the spent nuclear fuel, and that’s a bugger.
I think that steps 1 and 2 should be to reduce energy consumption and then to maximize the use of safer technologies like geothermal and wind power.
Nuclear power green ??? nuclear is filthy - the used nuclear waste has a half life of hundreds to thousands of years - it never goes away or becomes less dangerous to humans and other life on the planet - if the nuclear plant has an accident and melts down there goes that part of the planet, possibly for good - think Chernobyl in Russia, 3 Mile Island in the US -( that was a near miss). The site in Russia is still toxic to this day. Not to mention they are a nice target for terrorists, if you are paranoid. Solar, wind, etc. is possible in Canada, solar works anywhere the sun hits, you have wind, right ?? there are so many other ways to generate clean energy.