There is a debate brewing about just how "carbon free" nuclear power is. An anonymous scientist has a website called OliveRidley.org (Olive Ridley is a type of sea turtle found off the coast of India). Quoting from a March 26, 2007 posting (emphasis added by me):

"Now, some scientists and other experts are beginning to raise a different question about nuclear power: Is it really as clean as supporters contend? A report, released on Mar. 26 by a British nongovernmental organization called the Oxford Research Group, disputes the popular perception that nuclear is a clean energy source. It argues that while nuclear plants may not generate carbon dioxide while they operate, the other steps necessary to produce nuclear power, including the mining of uranium and the storing of waste, result in substantial amounts of carbon dioxide pollution. “As this report shows, hopes for the climate-protecting potential of nuclear energy are entirely misplaced,” says Jürgen Trittin, a former minister of the environment in Germany and a contributor to the report. “Nuclear power cannot be promoted on environmental grounds.”

The posting is quoting from a British scientific report from the Oxford Research Group.

So, if you read my previous post about investing in "clean energy," this post is a follow-up to add further "fuel" to my opinion that nuclear energy is too problematic to consider it "clean."

The banner on this post, by the way, comes from the US Department of Energy "Nuclear Energy" website.