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Dr. Ken Schultz, a registered nuclear engineer, is the California-based operations director for the energy group at General Atomics and a past board member of the American Nuclear Society. His current specialty is developing hydrogen from nuclear power.
Is expansion of nuclear power a feasible way to avoid greenhouse gas emissions?
Yes, it certainly is. Stopping the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2)is the first step, and you can use nuclear power for electricity and to produce hydrogen for transportation fuels without it emitting virtually any CO2.
How much greenhouse gas is created by ancillary nuclear processes--uranium mining and milling, transportation, waste storage, etc.? Even with those emissions taken into account, is nuclear power climate-friendly?
In mining uranium or making concrete and steel to build reactors, CO2 is emitted, but the same is true of other climate-friendly energy sources, including solar. In fact, if you look at the lifecycle CO2 emissions from nuclear power they are about on the scale of hydroelectric generation, about half that of solar energy, and much, much lower than emissions from any... |
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