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If we didn't let scaremongerers ruin nuclear with politics we could have had a 100% carbon-neutral (I don't count transportation because we can move to electric
by jimmaswell 7y ago
If we didn't let scaremongerers ruin nuclear with politics we could have had a 100% carbon-neutral (I don't count transportation because we can move to electric vehicles) grid with more cheap power available than we could find a use for by now.
Nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy in terms of deaths/kWh and waste storage is massively overblown, not even accounting for how we could be recycling that waste in new plant designs if it weren't for the fubar politics around it.
- pjc50 7y ago> Nuclear is statistically the safest form of energy in terms of deaths/kWh This is somewhat misleading, because the major risks are things like birth defects and cancers which are really hard to attribute to any specific cause. Not to mention that it's stochastic; we probably won't have a disaster, but if we do it ruins a huge land area at tremendous cost. Also, this doesn't work for every country.
- hanniabu 7y agoExactly, according to Russia, only 31 people died as a result of Chernobyl.