• umad_cause_ibad@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Don’t push nuclear power like it’s the only option though.

    Where I live we entirely provide energy from hydro power plants and nuclear energy is banned. We use no fossil fuels. We have a 35 year plan for future growth and it doesn’t include any fossil fuels. Nuclear power is just one of the options and it has many hurdles to implement, maintain and decommission.

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      1 year ago

      Honestly, if you can, hydro is brilliant. Not many places can though — both because of geography and politics. Nuclear is better than a lot of the alternatives and shouldn’t be discounted.

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          We can bury it in the ground and it will literally turn into lead. How are you doing with carbon emissions? Got a fix?

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          1 year ago

          I know it’s a damn lot easier than carbon recapture, if we’re talking waste products. It’s not ideal, but there is no such thing as perfect, and we shouldn’t let that be the enemy of good. Nuclear fission power is part of a large group of methods to help us switch off fossil fuels.

      • Harrison [He/Him]@ttrpg.network
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        1 year ago

        The nuclear power plant decades older than Chernobyl that got hit by an earthquake and a tsunami and resulted in a only single death and some expensive clean up?

        • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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          1 year ago

          The push for nuclear power across social media is 100% an industry sanctioned psyop.

          Oh please, I’ve been advocating for nuclear power since before most people even owned a dial up modem. You younger ones see everything through a haze of recency bias.