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Something like just 10% of global energy is provided by ~450 nuclear power plants. NASA conducted a study about how different energy sources impact human healt
by tdy_err 7y ago
Something like just 10% of global energy is provided by ~450 nuclear power plants.
NASA conducted a study about how different energy sources impact human health and found that nuclear energy had the least affect on human wellbeing.
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-harmful-than-nuclear-power/ https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...
Nuclear research was killed in the 80's. We still use uranium instead of thorium, which not only outputs significantly more power but also cannot be used to creat nuclear weapons. Instead of engineering solutions we draft contractual promises to thwart weapons development.
People once dreamed of a utopia when reactors were first theorized. But, after a string of accidents, we grew too afraid to make anything better than light water reactors (which we almost didn't build at all until the Afghan wars caused oil prices to skyrocket) and we never got there.
- option 7y agoalso people tend to ignore that quality of life correlates with energy consumed. We not only need our energy clean, we need much more of it