A clear picture?

Yesterday I saw on the news that the UK is building new nuclear power plants.

How nuclear power can be considered environmentally friendly I do not understand.

On the news they also said that this could make more countries wanting to follow the same path as the UK. They were right. This morning one of the Swedish political parties is saying that that's exactly what they want to do.

I'm agreeing with Greenpeace instead. Yeaterday a spokesman for Greenpeace said that building new nuclear power plants is not the way to go to lower a countries carbon footprint. Changing the way of thinking is the key. Building new nuclear power plants just "saves" a state from having to rethink.

The spokesman used Sweden and Finland in an example. Sweden's goal is to keep on shutting down all nuclear power plants. This plan has forced Sweden to think differently and make other plans for environmentally friendly solutions. Because of that Sweden has reduced its carbon footprint with 9 percent.

Finland, on the other hand, has plans on building more nuclear power plants and has increased its carbon footprint with 15 percent.

Doesn't that give a quite clear picture?