Comments Johnnyp has made
Tough one...
If you're talking about end of the pipe immediate ecological impact (or ecological alteration depending how you look at it) nuclear may have even hydro beat... some warm water effluent and steam may due less ecological harm than altering a whole river ecosystem (i.e. changing a flowing river into a ponded resevoir) as most dams do. Another benefit is bang for ecological footprint... nukes take up relatively little space to create relatively large amounts of power (100s of megawatts on few acres).. Though, there's always that nagging radio-actve potential. Also, uranium mining is damaging similarly to coal mining (perhaps even moreso?). Also, it's my understanding that we could stretch the nuke-fuel by reconstituting the spent fuel as they do in Europe. On Umbra on nuclear vs. coal posted 1 year, 10 months ago 25 Responses