Standard Anti-Nuclear Assertions

Foreword 1. There is no safe level of radiation exposure. 2. It is unsafe to transport radioactive materials. 3. Uranium resources are too limited. 4. Uranium mining is environmentally damaging and unsafe. 5. The nuclear fuel cycle emits vast amounts of greenhouse gases. 6. Nuclear power is too expensive to build, operate and decommission. 7. Nuclear power reactors take too long to build. 8. Nuclear power reactors routinely emit dangerous amounts of radioactive materials. 9. The number of deaths caused by the accident at Chernobyl 4 will total in the tens of thousands. 10. Reactor accidents could release vast amounts of radioactive materials with consequences comparable with Chernobyl 4. 11. Commercial power reactors produce plutonium which can be used to make nuclear weapons. 12. Breeder reactors do not work. 13. Plutonium is one of the most toxic substances known to man and minute amounts can cause cancer. 14. There is no solution to Nuclear waste. 15. Nuclear power will not stop global warming. _____________________________