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Originally Posted by SecretMaster
...treating uranium and enriching it is much more environmentally damaging than refining crude oil.
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I don't think thats true. If you look at all the energy uses, and waste produced in mining and refining coal/crude oil and then the waste produced during its use, it is lot more harmful to the environment than refining uranium. In addition you don't need NEARLY as much uranium as you need crude oil, or any other fossil fuels for that matter. The life cycle of "nuclear energy" is a lot cleaner and produces less waste than the life cycle of "fossil fuel energy".
Plus some random facts I found about health concerns:
*A coal power plant releases 100 times as much radiation as a nuclear power plant of the same wattage.
*Several large studies in the US, Canada, and Europe have found no evidence of any increase in cancer mortality among people living near nuclear facilities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fuel_cycle
why people are against nuclear power:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear