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>Leading to a situation that down the road we might have repeated the same mistakes like previous generations before us did: Leaving the actual problems, and it

>Leading to a situation that down the road we might have repeated the same mistakes like previous generations before us did: Leaving the actual problems, and it's solutions, to following generations, who gonna curse us for our naivety and hubris. This is also the case if we do nothing. Consider that the alternative to Nuclear is baseload generation with coal, oil and gas, which we know for a fact are destroying our environment by raising global temperatures. And they're ruining our air. They're not going away any time soon, either.

freeflight 8y ago
I agree that there are no easy solutions to any of this, but that shouldn't blind us from the possible dangers of going down a road we can't back out from. Particularly when it's about an industry that doesn't have an exactly stellar track record with "owning up" to their errors. Because contrary to popular perception, the nuclear industry suffers just as much from "cutting corners" as any other profit-driven industry [0]. Costs and responsibilities for decommissioning and final waste storage are still issues we are a far away from solving [1]. Sorry for being such a Debbie Downer, but I just don't see any good way out of this that doesn't involve massively cutting back energy consumption on a global level. Which is, of course, easier said than done. But it just feels like a massive oversight how we keep focusing on "increasing supply", while completely ignoring the option of "reducing demand" because it's too unpopular for any political support. [0] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/04/national/jcfc-steel-troubled-french-reactor-also-used-13-japanese-nuclear-power-plants/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/04/national/jcfc-s... [1] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP2KN https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP2...

freeflight 8y ago

I agree that there are no easy solutions to any of this, but that shouldn't blind us from the possible dangers of going down a road we can't back out from. Particularly when it's about an industry that doesn't have an exactly stellar track record with "owning up" to their errors. Because contrary to popular perception, the nuclear industry suffers just as much from "cutting corners" as any other profit-driven industry [0]. Costs and responsibilities for decommissioning and final waste storage are still issues we are a far away from solving [1]. Sorry for being such a Debbie Downer, but I just don't see any good way out of this that doesn't involve massively cutting back energy consumption on a global level. Which is, of course, easier said than done. But it just feels like a massive oversight how we keep focusing on "increasing supply", while completely ignoring the option of "reducing demand" because it's too unpopular for any political support. [0] https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/04/national/jcfc-steel-troubled-french-reactor-also-used-13-japanese-nuclear-power-plants/ https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/04/national/jcfc-s... [1] https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP2KN https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-europe-nuclear-idUKKCN0VP2...