Another Voice: Nuclear fuel cycle

Another Voice: Nuclear fuel cycle

Nuclear energy is promoted as renewable and clean.  It is neither. Renewable can only apply to energy forms where the power is already present, waiting to be collected, not to energy sources consuming finite material.  Renewable energy is present in solar (from the Sun), wind (from atmospheric solar heating), hydro (from stored rain resulting from wind), and geothermal (from Earth core heat).  These forms of power are constantly renewed and will…