'THIS WEEK' Shuffle

After Chris Christie went on and on about the country must have nuclear power, ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl, who was hosting, agreed and said nuclear power is "carbon neutral".


NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ARE NOT 'CARBON NEUTRAL'.

The mining of the uranium is NOT "carbon neutral". Transporting the uranium ore to the uranium processing plant is NOT "carbon neutral". The uranium processing plant is NOT "carbon neutral". Transporting the processed uranium to the uranium rod manufacturing plant is NOT "carbon neutral". The uranium rod manufacturing plant is NOT "carbon neutral". Transporting the uranium rods to the nuclear power plant is NOT "carbon neutral". The mining, creation, and transporting of the MASSIVE amounts of concrete and cement involved in the construction of nuclear plants is not only NOT "carbon neutral", it creates MASSIVE amounts of carbon.

All of this is on top of the fact that nuclear power is THE MOST EXPENSIVE manner to generate electricity, and there is STILL no explanation of what will safely be done with all the nuclear waste for the next 2,000 years.