You can stop reading right there as this immediately identifies this piece as disingenuous at best, more likely though propaganda.
The whole process is definitely not "carbon-free". Uranium extraction, transport and processing produce emissions. Building the plants and maintaining them does. Eventually demolishing does. Transporting the used fuel as well as building and maintaining storage facilities does.
All those factors are usually brought up in detail for things like solar and wind plants. It's just disingenuous not to count them for nuclear power.
You can stop reading right there as this immediately identifies this piece as disingenuous at best, more likely though propaganda.
The whole process is definitely not "carbon-free". Uranium extraction, transport and processing produce emissions. Building the plants and maintaining them does. Eventually demolishing does. Transporting the used fuel as well as building and maintaining storage facilities does.
All those factors are usually brought up in detail for things like solar and wind plants. It's just disingenuous not to count them for nuclear power.