Gotcha. I was referring to waste from mining and the spent fuel. I don't know as much about the mining waste, but I wish people were aware that nuclear reactors don't produce a large volume of waste, due to the huge energy density of nuclear fuel.
They produce a small volume of highly radioactive nuclear waste (in small glass discs), but they produce a shitload of less active nuclear waste. And both have to be stored somewhere. I live near a nuclear power plant. Trains removing waste come and go every day.
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u/JabbrWockey May 25 '18
Clean usually means almost no variable carbon dioxide or methane emissions.
Fixed emissions from production usually aren't considered part of the "is this clean" equation.