Is it true that the nuclear power stations also emmit carbon di oxide?How?

Answer 1

The only carbon dioxide emitted from a nuclear plant is the workers breathing.

Answer 2

Good question.

Having worked at nuclear power plants for years I'd be interested in knowing as well. To the best of my knowledge the only emissions are heat and steam.

Chernobyl may have emitted carbon dioxide when the reactor exploded and the carbon based moderator burned, but in a light water or heavy water reactor that would be impossible. So no reactor in North America would be capable of emitting CO2.

Final answer ... FALSE.
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Answer 3

The power plant may be viewed as an area source of carbon dioxide emissions. The source of these emissions is not from the nuclear fuel, but from ancillary operations, including fork lifts, trucks, and employee vehicles idling in the parking lot.

Answer 4

the nuclear reaction does not contribure Co2.
but the power station itself is is made of very large amounts of concrete, a major source of Co2, plus access roads (often cited by people trying to prove wind farms are not environmentally friendly) , heavy transport of people & materials.
Our local nuclear reactor is being de-commissioned, but rather than upgrade the railway line they are going to truck all the waste to the other side of the country.

Answer 5

In the nuclear power plants, the radioactive fuels are burnt.This burning results in formation of carbon dioxide as any fuel burnt in good supply of oxygen(supporter),then it produces carbon dioxide.