3 ms·
The anti-nuclear hysteria is truly bizarre. France has been doing an amazing job in terms of emissions targets for a decade now thanks to nuclear, and yet they
by missosoup 7y ago
The anti-nuclear hysteria is truly bizarre. France has been doing an amazing job in terms of emissions targets for a decade now thanks to nuclear, and yet they somehow still decided to roll it off in favour of PV+wind which have no advantages over what they already had.
- Reedx 7y agoIt seems to be ideology and emotional reaction to "nuclear" overriding logic. I'm having a hard time finding alternative explanations. Otherwise why would you be so picky in a situation you see as a crisis? To reduce CO2 emissions globally we need every tool in the toolbox and nuclear is one of the best and safest[1] we have. Maybe rebranding nuclear energy would help. Get rid of that word, replace it with something else. 1. https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
- wazoox 7y agoYep, the problem is that GreenPeace, the Grünen (in Germany), les Verts (in France) all started up in the 70s by struggling against nuclear power mostly for its military uses, out of sheer pacifism mainly (which is a perfectly reasonable idea). In Europe, the mythos of "struggle against nuclear power/ military /oppressive state" reached an acme when the poor activist Vital Michalon was killed during protests in Creys-Malville in 1977 ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestation_%C3%A0_Creys-Malville_en_1977 https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifestation_%C3%A0_Creys-Mal... ). This basically cast the legend in stone forever. So "nuclear" became the evil-arch-enemy nemesis, and nothing can be done anymore: that's their religious dogma, with its martyr and saints, and no amount of rational discussion or scientific evidence can help.