Comment: No to uranium mining and No to Nuke Plants!
by Naturally Savvy
11.27.09
Can a nuclear weary TreeHugger really believe what she's hearing? Could uranium mines be facing shortages? Earlier this week, New Scientist reported that nuclear power may be faced with a double blow: Uranium mine owners are talking shortages, and estimates for the amount of uranium that can be economically mined may be lower than once thought.
It's bad news for all those nuclear power plants being built around the world (at great expense to tax-payers, I might add), but it may be good news for green energy.
What's more, with the economical future of nuclear energy in question, governments and corporations may start to invest more resources in developing economical clean energy -- which could mean better clean energy technologies that avoid the problems we're currently dealing with (like water wars and the impact of wind turbines on human health).
Who knows -- maybe governments will stupidly throw money at an industry that generates vast amounts of toxic waste, and nuclear energy will continue to thrive. But maybe, just maybe, this is an opportunity for renewable energy to really take off.
Read more at:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/are-we-running-out-of-uranium-lets-hope-so.php?campaign=th_rss
