Loudmouth wrote: "Do we see the Greens going on about uranium and the dangers of letting it sit there in the ground ? No, we don't. Instead, we hear screams about coal and oil and gas. Given that nuclear energy is an obvious(if unspoken) alternative to these CO2 producers, are we all being set up by the Greens to accept the nuclear alternative ? "

Right on the money! The Greens would not have that objective, but they're are very much part of the setting up which is being pursued by the nuclear industry and its ideological camp followers. (Wanna sell the idea of nuclear energy? Talk about coal.) Was Eisenhower wearing a tinfoil hat when he warned about a military industrial complex and its power and influence? List the countries using nuclear energy? List the countries brandishing nuclear weapons. Notice anything?

And basic physics does not account for the dire computer-modelled predictions underlying AGW hysteria any more than basic genetics accounted for the eugenics boondoggle.

Insurance companies don't refuse public risk policies for nuclear energy because they don't understand the technology. They refuse it because they do, as they have the resources to assess the risk of getting stuck with a crippling payout. It's why they wrote to me years ago slapping a nuclear exclusion on my ordinary suburban house policy as all insurance companies were doing with all home insurance policies.

But OK - call for a referendum to show dinkum.

EmperorJulian strikes again!
" List the countries using nuclear energy? List the countries brandishing nuclear weapons. Notice anything?"
Woah! What a simplistic equation you have there.
1. Nuclear bombs can be produced without a nuclear power industry.
2. Nuclear power have made an AMAZING market to eat nuclear bombs! EG: About 10% of American electricity for 20 years came from fissioning old Soviet bombs. Bombs are expensive to maintain, so when states are in financial trouble there is a motive to sell the nuclear material to another power to BURN the bomb as clean energy. Read a bit more at the wiki. 10% of American electricity is like powering the whole of Australia for 20 years on old Soviet bombs!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Program
3. An absolute majority of the world's highest CO2 emitters ALREADY have nuclear bombs! Sorry pal, but that horse bolted a long time ago. Want to solve the VERY REAL threat of global warming as demonstrated by the repeatable, demonstrable, provable physics of CO2 and the Radiative Forcing Equation? (Physics and maths). Then go GenIV nuclear, in breeder reactors that can safely burn nuclear waste and warheads for abundant clean energy forever.*
*(Uranium from seawater only costs $300 to $600 per kilogram, which is one human lifetime of energy! Our oceans are constantly being topped up with uranium particles by erosion).

Remember: America already has enough nuclear waste to run her for 1000 years, and the UK enough to run her for 500 years, if we burned it all in IFR's and LFTR's.