Wastes remain a major concern whether they are released to the environment or not.
Ethical principles seem increasingly likely to dominate energy policy in many countries, which augurs well for nuclear energy.
"When viewed from a large set of criteria, nuclear power shows a unique potential as a large scale sustainable energy source." OECD 2001
"The competitive position of nuclear energy is robust from a sustainable development perspective since most health and environmental costs are already internalised." OECD 2001
Until the last ten or twenty years sustainable energy was thought of simply in terms of availability relative to the rate of use. Today, in the context of the ethical framework of