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by nickik 2826 days ago
Ok. Lets have reasonable idalogue.

The facts are quite simply that nuclear uses the least amount of materials and has the lowest overall resource consumption.

Uranium is mined threw one hole in the ground and is much cleaner and less destractive then virtually all other forms of mining. Furthermore you only need tiny amounts because the the energy density.

The mining required for solar and wind is larger by orders of magnitude.

The same goes for land use. Nuclear has a minuscule land use impact.

On carbon solar, wind and nuclear are all so much better that it hardly matters and calculations become way to specific about what was transported where and so on.

Nuclear pays for the decommissioning and for the waste. The 'waste' is all captures and does not harm anybody (not even animals). Compared to the waste form solar and wind that is not properly accounted for in most of the world.

So nuclear is overall has the smallest environmental impact.