Nuclear isn't perfect, but it is the best we have right now. : memes

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (18 children)

clean... so many storage pools full of spent fuel, no home for them in sight... hundreds of pools, spread all over the US....

clean?

I mean cleaner than coal, sure. but it's enormous infrastructure and regulatory hurdles aren't worth it.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No it is not. If you calculate in the future money tax payers have to pay to keep the nuclear waste safe (for thousands of years) or the cost of a larger incident like Chernobyl or Fukushima which also has to be paid by the tax payers then the 'cheap nuklear power' is not so cheap as it looks like...

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 months ago (6 children)

Renewables fed into a fusion reactor is the best currently

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 4 months ago (13 children)

What? Do you live in the 1950s? Have you heard of nuclear accidents? How many people did wind and solar energy kill so far?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

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[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Totally. Tinpot dictators getting nukes is nothing to worry about. And the waste can just be handwaved away. After all, they have a storage facility in Finland that will probably come online in a couple of years. Problem solved.

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[+] [email protected] -16 points 5 months ago (12 children)

"Safe". Yeah. Let's talk about Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and Fukushima. All that was kinda not so safe, don't you think?

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