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

[–] kjtms@lemmy.ml -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait, I'm seeing a lot of people being very against nuclear. From what I've gathered, I see no downsides compared to fossil fuels

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[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml -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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[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world -4 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Renewables fed into a fusion reactor is the best currently

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[+] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world -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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[+] sverit@lemmy.ml -7 points 5 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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[+] Captain_Baka@feddit.de -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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