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I know you probably won't care to take this seriously, but you may stand to benefit by checking what you are basing your opinion upon; there is a fantastic amou
by coddingtonbear 10y ago
I know you probably won't care to take this seriously, but you may stand to benefit by checking what you are basing your opinion upon; there is a fantastic amount of misinformation on this subject accepted as truth, and doing some basic research may show you that your beliefs are not grounded in reality.
The following things are true, but do feel free to double-check, these facts are not controversial: nuclear energy is far, far safer per kWh than those power sources your country voluntarily switched to; the UN -- using the very conservative & pessimistic linear-no-threshold model -- expects that approximately 4,000 people will eventually die as a result of our most catastrophic nuclear disaster in human history (it seems others in this thread have given you good examples of disasters caused by non-nuclear power sources, so I won't repeat those numbers here); and the volume of waste generated by a 1 GWe nuclear reactor (were it reprocessed and vitrified) would fill right around three cubic meters.
Those things are probably a little hard for you to swallow -- I understand, you've probably spent your entire life being preached to about the dangers of nuclear power, especially if you're in a country that's remotely close to the disaster in Ukraine -- but, really, try to take a deep breath and make sure you know why you believe what you do.
- hga 10y agothe volume of waste generated by a 1 GWe nuclear reactor (were it reprocessed and vitrified) would fill right around three cubic meters And that waste will be no more radioactive than the ore it was mined from in about 600 years. (Now, that's not entirely safe stuff for your children to roll around in, but it helps put the issue in perspective.)