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"Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way" this kind of headline pops up every few years. Too bad it takes a decade to build these things, they cost billions, they

by kjar 7y ago

"Safer Nuclear Reactors Are on the Way" this kind of headline pops up every few years. Too bad it takes a decade to build these things, they cost billions, they produce harmful waste that persists for thousands of years, and in failure cases produce exclusion zones for thousands of years. Effort and investment would be better spent on solar and wind power projects.

kjar 7y ago
"Too cheap to meter" - my ass
- carapace 7y ago
  That's fusion not fission apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_cheap_to_meter
  - pfdietz 7y ago
    There's is no good evidence that phrase was about fusion. https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/06/03/too-cheap-to-meter-a-history-of-the-phrase/ https://public-blog.nrc-gateway.gov/2016/06/03/too-cheap-to-...
    - carapace 7y ago
      Cheers. (Oh Wikipedia! You led me astray!)
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gdubs 7y ago
Fossil fuels already kill millions. According to Stewart Brand, the nuclear waste for one’s entire life would fit into a can of soda. And despite nimbyism, there’s already a solution for the waste in the US: Yucca Mountain. Oh, and it doesn’t produce the greenhouse gases that are currently threatening global stability in a timeframe of decades. We shouldn’t minimize a technology’s shortcomings, but we should at least frame it fairly and soberly among our set of options.
- garmaine 7y ago
  Yucca Mountain was never built and the project defunded in 2011.