Now, all this anti-military claptrap is rather irritating. Every state has a military, its own or somebody elses, no matter if it has nuclear power or not. Saying that it promotes surveillance and fascism and everything is just silly. The military is what has stood between us and Soviet occupation for the last half century. And that would have meant surveillance and fascism.
And seriously, don't tell me you think France, the UK, Sweden, Canada, Switzerland, Germany etc have turned into fascist autocracies since we deployed nuclear reactors, especially when compared to non-nuclear nations like Denmark, Norway, Portugal, Austria, Italy etc? Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
European Commission: External Costs: Research results on socio-environmental damages due to electricity and transport (2003) [PDF] Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
Also, the "External cost figures for electricity production in the EU for existing technologies" table has a footnote: "sub-total of quantifiable externalities (such as global warming, public health, occupational health, material damage)"
So, on the face of it, the specific risks of nuclear power are not addressed. Can the last politician to go out the revolving door please turn the lights off?
