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The waste is a non-problem, especially when you compare with co2 over decades. Nuclear energy emits less co2 than renewables: it requires less metals (especial
by jokoon 7y ago
The waste is a non-problem, especially when you compare with co2 over decades.
Nuclear energy emits less co2 than renewables: it requires less metals (especially if you store electricity with batteries or other means), and renewables are not baseload energies, meaning you need to burn either coal or gas when there's no sun or wind.
Wind mills require a lot of metals, and installing them is complicated. Solar panels require mining elements, and solar panels degrade over time.
Nuclear energy is green. It's time to say it.
- rmetzler 7y agoJust tell this to the people in Fukushima and Tschernobyl. Also you worded it like you don’t need mining to produce nuclear energy, it’s not complicated to handle and reactors don’t fall apart over time.
- jokoon 7y agoAs it was answered above in another comment, there are far more deaths caused by coal (particles, radioactivity of coal fumes). Stop the nuclear fear-mongering. You need less mining for uranium. Reactors have a huge lifespan. They're cheap and clean when considering the energy they bring.
- throwaway023421 7y agoYou are comparing CO2 emission and use of metal and completely ignore the catastrophic systemic risk of nuclear power. There has been many events where nuclear waste has been dumped in the ocean, misplaced, lost, improperly buried, leaked in rivers, caught fire and even deliberately used in projectiles and dispersed in the environment. And this is nothing compared to the risk of exposing large amounts of waste during a war or terrorist attack.
- jokoon 7y agofear mongering please have actual figures about death and cancer, and compare them with car exhaust and air quality it is illegal to dump nuclear waste