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Considering NASA recommends that nuclear power be "significantly expanded" despite its drawbacks, I think they are sound enough. The US has a pretty squeaky cle
by 0xy 6y ago
Considering NASA recommends that nuclear power be "significantly expanded" despite its drawbacks, I think they are sound enough. The US has a pretty squeaky clean record when it comes to nuclear safety and storage protocols.
Also, the current status quo of "look we built all this renewable energy! just ignore all those gas peaking plants propping them up!" has to end.
Nuclear is green. Renewables + gas is not renewable, not sustainable and not green.
- bob29 6y ago>The US has a pretty squeaky clean record when it comes to nuclear safety and storage protocols. One single nuclear site is consuming 10% of the DoE's budget, and its still leaking. https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article228456109.html https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/hanford/article228...
- sigstoat 6y agowhile the comment you're replying to didn't make a distinction, i'll make the distinction that that was a nuclear weapons production facility (run by the federal government). further, some of it was constructed during WWII for the manhattan project. so... not great handling, true. strong evidence about how nuclear power plants will be operated in the future? no.
- opo 6y agoThe NRC does not regulate defense nuclear facilities.
- jdsully 6y agoThe Hanford site is a WWII era nuclear weapons facility and is not at all comparable with nuclear reactors for power generation.
- mixmastamyk 6y agoAllow me to introduce you to the relatively unknown Santa Susanna Field Laboratory meltdown/explosion, due to extensive cover ups over decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_Reactor_Experiment Still not fully cleaned up.