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Nuclear plants do not "blow up". This is FUD, pure and simple. People are unreasonably scared of nuclear energy, and we might lose a planet because of this. Fo
by jwr 7y ago
Nuclear plants do not "blow up". This is FUD, pure and simple. People are unreasonably scared of nuclear energy, and we might lose a planet because of this.
For real data on how dangerous nuclear energy is, please look at https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
- hef19898 7y agoWell, there actually is some unreasonable view on nuclear. Especially in Germany. Doesn't change the fact that long term we should get rid of it. The storage of the waste is just to tricky and when not if something goes wrong we talk about serious damage. That we should IMHO get rid of coal earlier isn't exclusive, so.
- atemerev 7y agoToday's "waste" is tomorrow's fuel for breeder reactors. We don't need to store waste; we need to burn it.
- sonnyblarney 7y agoNuclear plants do not 'blow up' this is simply total distortion of reality. There are ways to help solve the waste issues, and ways to make plants safer. Given the near infinite latent power in nuclear, and the fact that it's Co2 free ... we should probably be considering this strongly and putting a lot of effort into researching it.
- Gondolin 7y agoYes long term we should get rid of it (for fusion), but in short term the priority is climate change. And nuclear fision is a tremendous asset for climate change. There are still huge challenge of course, and we are unfortunately not at all on course to tackle them, but depriving ourselves of nuclear is only going to make things worse.
- anoncake 7y ago> Nuclear plants do not "blow up". The reactor of Chernobyl did blow up. Just not like a nuclear bomb, if that's what you meant. Which may be a bad thing, Hiroshima is actually inhabitable. >People are unreasonably scared of nuclear energy, and we might lose a planet because of this. People are quite reasonably scared of nuclear energy. What's unreasonable is that they are less scared of global warming. Your data is not convincing -- in fact, I think it does not address the danger of nuclear and fossil energy at all. Using fossils kill a fairly predictable number of people each year. For a country, let alone humanity as a whole, that is not a danger but a cost.
- derblitzmann 7y agoThe reactor that blew up in Chernobyl was because of the design of the reactor itself. Even at the time it was built, the west never would have green lit the reactor design.
- tdhoot 7y agoGood thing nuclear reactors are only being built in the West then.
- jwr 7y agoThe reactor in Chernobyl was a soviet RBMK-type reactor. These haven't been built anywhere for many decades and I don't think even a single one was ever built anywhere in the West. Nuclear plants do not "blow up".
- anoncake 7y ago> Nuclear plants do not "blow up". Chernobyl was a coal plant them I guess.
- petre 7y agoChernobyl is the worst possible example. The RMBK reactor is an irresponsible politically motivated design without containment and a highly positive void coefficient, meaning that runaway nuclear reaction is possible. The reactor that blew up also had a design fault (which was fixed), it is quite unstable at low capacity and there was also human error that triggered the accident. http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/nuclear-power-reactors/appendices/rbmk-reactors.aspx http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fue...