Nuclear power: factor in all aspects, and it contributes to global warming

(Source) http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Wishful+thinking+nuclear+power/7729997/story.html#ixzz2FnvtztHi

By Dr. Dale Dewar, executive director of the group Physicians for Global Survival December 21, 2012  ” What’s to like about nuclear power?……….Is it green, as a Dec. 7 editorial suggests? Those who promote nuclear as a rescue to global warming get mixed up about the proportion of the world’s energy that is actually provided by nuclear power. The fact is that nuclear power represents less than three per cent of the world’s total energy use. Increasing its share of electricity production would not make a dent in preventing climate warming.

Nuclear power accounts for only 11 per cent of the world’s total electrical production, down from its peak in 1995 of 17 per cent. At the current rate of new builds versus old power plants reaching their end dates, the IAEA estimates a 2040 share of 6.7 per cent.  Factor in the mining, transportation, carbon costs of construction, security, waste management and decommissioning all at the greatest cost of any source and nuclear power is only green at best when it is up and running at 90 per cent or better efficiency a figure rarely reached by most reactors.
(Reference) Is nuclear really CO2 Free? http://fukushimaappeal.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/is-nuclear-really-co2-free.html