Permission to reproduce this article is granted provided that attribution to the author is given and that this notice is reproduced. Anti-nuclear activists cannot be trusted to tell the truth about the nuclear industry. In this article I expose the barrage of lies, distortions and falsehoods coming from the Sustainable Energy and Anti-Uranium Service . Nevertheless, the main canards can be put to rest briefly. This statement grossly distorts the facts.
Nuclear energy is much cleaner than other forms of large-scale energy generation.
While technically some wastes may be long lived, the long lived components pose minimal risks, and their volume is extremely small. Nuclear energy is substantially cleaner than other large-scale energy generation means such as coal based ones. The amount of waste produced by a large nuclear generator producing electricity for a city of a million people would fit inside six filing cabinets. In many places renewable energy sources are as cheap or significantly cheaper than nuclear energy. When the electricity utilities were privatised in the United Kingdom the market refused to purchase or support nuclear utilities.