Nuclear energy never will be ‘clean’ . . .

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Nuclear energy never will be ‘clean’ . . .

[ https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/05 ... ds/420255/ ]

Lynn Jones and Gordon Edwards - THE HILL TIMES | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2024

EXCERPT: "The 2024 federal budget contains many references to nuclear energy as a “clean” source of electricity. In our view, referring to nuclear electricity as “clean” is the height of absurdity.

The nuclear fuel chain begins with the mining of uranium from rock underground where, without human intervention, it would remain safely locked away from the biosphere. Uranium has many natural radioactive byproducts, including radium, radon, and polonium-210 that are discarded in voluminous sandlike “tailings” at uranium mine sites. These materials are responsible for countless thousands of deaths in North America alone. Canada has accumulated 220 million tonnes of these indestructible radioactive mining wastes, easily dispersed by wind and rain over the next 100,000 years. . . . .

Nuclear energy is not now, never has been, and never will be “clean.” The sooner our elected officials come to terms with this fact, the better for Canada and Canadians. Honesty is the best policy."

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Gordon Edwards, Montreal, Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, Lynn Jones, Ottawa, Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area"


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