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Nuclear energy Anonymous 296300

Do you have opinions on nuclear energy? Does your place already use it?

Anonymous 296301

Yes.
Maybe.

Anonymous 296302

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I wish I had nuclear energy in my city. I still use hamsters running in tiny wheels to power my electricity.

Anonymous 296303

it's based

Anonymous 296317

I wish big oil didn't control society and lobbies against renewable energy.

Big oil, big corn, big pharma, fast fashion, it's all so terrible for the environment. I wish humans were socialized into accepting being so wasteful.

Big corporations are always just evil. The reason why Americans don't have maternity leave is because Nestle lobbied against it.

Anonymous 296327

I am not against it but I always wondered the REAL reason we never fully adopted it. On paper it seems great but all of the reasons presented by its advocates just seem like typical redditard rhetoric with no real substance.

Anonymous 296328

Nuclear energy at scale requires such a degree of safety overhead and waste management, and society benefits so much from any marginal improvement in process, that the only sensible way to go about it is the nationalization of the entire energy sector. It will never happen. Small reactors for industrial and medical necessities are the best we're going to get.

Anonymous 296329

>>296327
Capitalism is the reason why.

Anonymous 296330

It’s one of the most efficient ways of making electricity ever and completely safe but wrinkly old morons with childhood trauma about nukes hate it for no reason. Or maybe they hate it because they want to prop up the fossil fuel industry. Idk.

Anonymous 296336

Coal and natural gas ought to be conserved as supplements or substitutes for petroleum in the production of synthetic fertilizers. We need to refactor all aspects of food production because the advancements of the Green Revolution rely on depleting resources, and we don't even know if it is really possible to find a substitute for our current synthetic fertilizers.

But there's a lot of disinfo around nuclear power.
Mining uranium does involve producing tail-end products which are worse than lead mining tail ends. Once it is in the plant it may be cleaner than coal electricity, but uranium extraction is not cleaner than other forms of heavy metals mining. Not that solar is entirely clean either–China has entire rivers rendered uninhabitable from cadmium tail ends.
The heavy water involved in plant processes IS required in a specific balance sustain life, and VERY small changes in deuterium concentration affect cell metabolism and apoptosis (you know, the process where a cell decides to kill itself rather than kill you via cancer):
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9963022/
–so there IS an effect on the environment inherent in reducing freshwater heavy water balances. And nuclear reactors DO require freshwater since sodium activates.
"Plant safety" is not just about safety against accident or circumstance. The United States and Israel proved, with StuxNet, that deliberate attacks on nuclear processes can succeed and are highly nationally rewarding. StuxNet was designed specifically to not cause environmental catastrophe, but not every attack will be based on prudence. There are treaties against any attack on nuclear power plants which describe any attack including accidental artillery strike as "nuclear terrorism" to be subjected to immediate international military retaliation, but those treaties were shown for bluff and bluster when Russia (a primary signatory of such treaties) shelled Ukrainian plants.

Anonymous 296363

>>296300
Not as bad as what people say

Anonymous 296386

>>296327
The real reason is pretty boring. It's expensive. If reactors with cheaper fuels become available, it'll become way more common.



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