Nuclear power and bureaucracy

[Not Afraid]

Although, I have heard people opposing wind power because it polutes our surroundings with those eyesore windmills. Also, so much more space is needed to generate the same amount of electricity put out by a nuc plant. But, I agree, on a general waste production level, it generates the least.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Although, I have heard people opposing wind power because it polutes our surroundings with those eyesore windmills. Also, so much more space is needed to generate the same amount of electricity put out by a nuc plant. But, I agree, on a general waste production level, it generates the least.

I wonder how much of that is offset by operations necessities when looked at from a per kilowatt perspective. With the vast discrepancy between the amount of power output of wind vs. nuclear, as well as the physical size, I wouldn't be surprised if the amount of polution caused by things like maintanance vehicles (which, due to the expansive fields of wind generators would need to do a lot of driving) as a proportion of the amount of electricity produced actually aproaches the proportion of waste to energy that a nuclear plant produces. I could be wrong, but soemthing tells me the gap isn't quite as big, or easy to quantify, as one might think.