Nevertheless, the CO2 cost is infinite, since the job goes on forever.
The following table shows how nuclear power plants produce CO2 and use CFCs.
Table
Nuclear Power Plant/Nuclear Fuel Cycle
and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
1 Mining (using diesel powered heavy machinery)
2 Transport to mill
3 Milling (rock crushed to powder, treated with sulphuric acid)
4 Depleted ore washed with lime (lime made by heating limestone with fossil fuels releasing CO2)
5 Resulting slurry pumped to tailing ponds
6 Tailing ponds maintained with diesel powered machinery
7 Uranium dissolved in kerosene to form Ammonium diuranate, or "yellowcake"
8 The yellowcake is roasted at 800C, 1472 Deg F, in an oil-fired furnace called a calciner, converting it to 98% pure Uranium oxide
9 The Uranium oxide is packed into 44 gallon [UK] drums and transported to a shipping port; the drums are then shipped, often half way around the world
10 The Uranium oxide is dissolved in Hydrofluoric Acid and excess Fluorine gas to form Uranium hexafluoride gas
11 Uranium hexafluoride gas is then compressed and transported in cylinders to be enriched -- centrifuges used require electricity, generally supplied by coal-powered plants in the U.S. Building the centrifuge cascades requires fossil fuels for mining and refining materials, transport and construction
12 Uranium hexafluoride gas is then transported to the fuel fabrication plant
