Nuclear plants do add to greenhouse gases via The Day Connecticut

But accounting only the generation stage of the total nuclear fuel cycle ignores substantial greenhouse gas emissions associated with ore mining, transportation and processing, isotope enrichment, and in the final stage spent fuel storage (and fuel reprocessing in some global regions).

In addition there is major contribution of carbon dioxide attributable to the fabrication of plant components and final construction.

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