The whole nuclear fuel cycle

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=553&fArticleId=3868544

"Recently, the UK's sustainable development commission confirmed that the full fuel cycle of nuclear power generation is fossil fuel intensive and emits large amounts of greenhouse gases. Compared with renewable energy, nuclear power releases three to four times more carbon dioxide per unit of energy when accounting for the whole fuel cycle."

So I went looking for some info on the nuclear fuel cycle and found the following article (quite old though).

http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/2587.jsp#

I do have my doubts on the feasibility of what he claims to be the solution.

veg.

the UK's sustainable development commission

Veg, I stopped reading after that. Commissions never get it right, they always have an agenda. Always as in "no exceptions".

Rien, you jump to conclusion so quickly that it smells like prejudice.

Every opinion includes an agenda in the sense that opinions are never value free. We need to step over this and look at the facts before making a judgement.

One of my greatest fears is to become a victim of my own values and thoughts. As we like uranium and we see an excellent investment opportunity in it (even one that has already proven to be excellent), our thoughts evolve towards one-sidedness and we can easily become a victim of it.

Therefore once I've choosen a stock or commodity to invest in, I tend to focus more on the negative issues than on the positieve one. I've experienced many don't like such an attitude

BTW the article written by van Leeuwen contains a lot of assumptions and incomplete reasoning.

veg.

Veg, you are right.

I do not neglect the "other" side. I have heard about this before, but I have never seen any solid arguments for it. It seems that when it comes to oil, people expect technology to save us, but when looking at nuclear, they suddenly assume that everything will stay as is. And I am rather sure that even in the current situation nuclear energy is not a net energy looser. Though we do waste a lot of the possible additional upside.

As to political commissions, I do not waver though. They will ALWAYS reach a political conclusion. They will NEVER get to a facts based conclusion.

Maybe I am overly cynical?