How green is nuclear energy?

How green is nuclear energy?

Terry Tamminen (Author & Environmental Policy Advisor) gives expert video advice on: What are large corporations doing to help fight long term environmental issues? and more...

Nuclear energy has been suggested by some as the way out of our problems with fossil fuel addiction and with greenhouse gas emissions, because nuclear energy doesn't have any emission. Unfortunately nuclear energy has very toxic radioactive waste materials and we have yet to figure out how to deal with that. We talked about burying the waste from nuclear energy but there's no evidence that will necessarily make it benign for us. There's a lot of hazards from nuclear energy, with radioactive leaks and other kinds of radioactive waste, there's a lot of subsidies that are needed to keep these nuclear plants operating. So on both economic basis and a waste basis, so far nuclear energy hasn't proved to be a very good bargain for a way to generating electricity.