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[โ€“] 105 points 3 months ago (15 children)

why is there such a negative sentiment towards nuclear power? was it all oil and gas propaganda? or is there some truth

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  • [โ€“] 21 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Chernobyl, Fukushima, 3 Mile Island. Plus uranium is another non-renewable resource.

    I'm still pro nuke as getting off fossil fuels is of the utmost urgency, but we will have to learn to live off wind and solar.

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  • [โ€“] 15 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    So what has released more uncontrolled waste into the world, all the nukes including those, or the equivalent mega-wattage of all other human power generation? Our entire global community is FUCKED to the tune of hundreds of trillions of dollars from consequences of petro, while meanwhile very few of us are suffering from the effects of nuclear power generation. Nukes don't replace solar and wind, they complement them.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Ideally we figure out some sweet Nuclear Fusion.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Ah yes, the Fusion Reactors that are coming soon (TM) (promised decades ago).

    We need energy now, not at some unknown point in the future. Of course, resaeching this technology may make sense. But it does not help today and also not the next 20 years.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Cold fusion has been 10 years away since early 1960s.

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  • I'd love to see a full production chain breakdown of disasters and their costs to clean up, for both fossil fuel and nuclear.

    Most people's issue is "ooh scary radiation!" without realizing you get more exposure to ionizing radiation by living near a coal fired power plant than a nuclear one. Fuck, you can take a swim in the reactor pool and if you're under the surface away from the nuclear material, the water above you blocks the background radiation you'd be exposed to walking around on the surface.

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  • [+] [S] -22 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [โ€“] 18 points 3 months ago

    This is only for uranium and plutonium based nuclear power. There are others that don't produce weapons grade byproducts. Helium 3 for instance and other versions of uranium. Also cobalt is an option.

    As long as we want to pay for power, it can be profitable, in the sense that we pay what we need and people who work there are paid fairly as well.

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