EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document
Here we go again:<p>1. Nuclear has much worse failure modes. The Cybernobyl Exclusion Zone is quite literally 1,000 square miles [1];<p>2. Advocate like to talk about reprocessing as a solution to the waste problem. It seems to be missed that this is limited to spent fuel reprocessing. This appears to have significant cost and safety issues;<p>3. Separately to spent fuel, you also have to store enrichment byproducts (eg UF₆, UF₄) that have their own problems;<p>4. Stored nuclear waste is a security issue; and<p>5. Transportation of fuel and spent fuel is a security issue.<p>The big problems with nuclear aren&#x27;t technical they&#x27;re political but they are no less significant. For me, I just don&#x27;t trust humans--either government entities or for-profit enterprises--to safely and responsibly build and manage a nuclear power plants as well as all the infrastructure to mine, process, transport, reprocess and store any byproducts.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Chernobyl_Exclusion_Zone</a>