Nuclear Energy Is Non Renewable Nuclear Weapons Quote

When we discovered nuclear energy we found the power to produce more weapons.

Energia nuclear japon fukushima united states keyboard. Read some interesting facts about nuclear energy. The bombs killed as many as 140000 people in hiroshima and 80000 in nagasaki by the end of 1945 roughly half on the days of the bombings. Those who want to classify nuclear energy as renewable cite the fact that it has low carbon emission just the way renewable sources such as wind and solar do.

We cannot call uranium a renewable source or a renewable energy due to its limited supply and hazardous effects. There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in america. To create uncertainty about the ability of renewable energy to power an industrial society they bombard decision makers and the media with negative myths about renewable energy and positive myths about nuclear energy attempting to turn these myths into conventional wisdom.

Dont believe the spurious claims of nuclear shills constantly doing down renewables writes mark diesendorf. The energy density of the nuclear energy cannot be compared with any other known source of energy fossil or renewable. Article iv was absolutely essential to the negotiation and conclusion of the npt in 1968.

Hiroshima and nagasaki are to date the only attacks with nuclear weapons in the history of warfare. Even though nuclear energy can help us make the world a better place it can also be the spark that starts. Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.

Non renewable fuels such as natural gas and oil produce byproducts that harm the environment through global warming emissions. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. If coal has an energy density of 325 mjkg megajouleskilogram and crude oil 419 mjkg natural uranium lwr has an energy density of 5700000 mjkg thorium breeder has a density of 790000000 mjkg and natural.

The problem with nuclear energy is that it doesnt demand the radical re making of society like renewables do. Those opposed to calling nuclear power renewable note. Clean safe renewable energy technologies have the potential to supply 100 of the worlds electricity needs but the first hurdle is to refute the deliberately misleading myths designed to promote the politically powerful but ultimately doomed nuclear industry.

Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort. Ambassador grahams extended quote. The strategies and tactics of renewable energy deniers are very similar to those of climate science deniers.