Hunterston B nuclear power station closes after 46 years

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3. It is well known that no source of energy is zero carbon. This complaint is typical however...

...inasmuch the claim amounts to "nuclear energy is not perfect therefore we will embrace everything else which is much worse."

LCA, life cycle analysis, is an increasingly prevalent tool, for which many major software programs involving vast scientific teams have put together.

All have limitations and strengths.

I have collected tens of thousands of references on nuclear energy over three decades, and I very much doubt that anyone here could produce a source that would "clarify" things for me.

Many people, most of them poorly informed, think that nuclear energy can only be utilized for the generation of electricity, which is what it was largely utilized in the first generation of nuclear systems. However, I have argued, and am discussing actively with my son that in the next generation of nuclear reactors, beyond "Gen IV," nuclear systems should be chemical plants first and generate electricity as a side product. One chemical product would be carbon electrodes for metal refining using FFC type processes, as well as motor fuels for those self propelled devices that a wise culture would decide to retain. (A wise society would not include a car CULTure.)

By the intelligent use of used nuclear fuels we can eliminate both the need for mining and enrichment completely further reducing the carbon compact well below the generally accepted figure of 10-50g CO2/kwh, vastly lower than all other forms of reliable energy.