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Originally Posted by mykalberta

The reason nuke power isnt used yet is:

A: Alberta has no plutonium so doesnt get a cut when its used
B: Alberta has a mother load of cheap coal so coal plants are used

Coal could be just as clean as nuke if they were to put filters at the top of the stacks and collect them and then dispose of them. That would likely be cheaper than dolling out billions on nuke plants where the alberta government makes no revenue.

MYK

If we're talking about the kind of pollution that Kyoto governs, then there really isn't any way for coal power plants to be as clean as nuclear plants. Sure you can filter out particulates (which have nothing to do with Kyoto), but you still release a lot of CO2. Nuclear plants don't produce any CO2 emissions because all they do is use nucler fuel to turn water to steam.

Also, while your point about plutonium is correct (since Plutonium as I understand it is not found in usable quantites in nature, and is only created from uranium for the purpose of fuel for nuclear plants/bombs), it is irrelevant on account of CANDU reactors use Uranium for fuel.