Reply #59: GHG emissions from the nuclear fuel cycle will increase - not decrease - as uranium ore

[jpak]

quality declines.

More fossil fuel will be required to mine uranium - much more - as lower grade ores are mined, transported and processed.

GHG emissions will *increase* accordingly.

And. no one can tally the number of deaths caused by spent nuclear fuel until the last atom of 137Cs, 90Sr, 239Pu et al. has decayed away.

That will take 600 years for 137Cs and 90Sr and 480,000 years for 239Pu.

Nobody *here* will be around to do that count...