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Nuclear power is a hot button topic for sure, but while I am somewhat pro nuclear myself, I have to admit there are plenty of perfectly reasonable objections to
by simonh 6y ago
Nuclear power is a hot button topic for sure, but while I am somewhat pro nuclear myself, I have to admit there are plenty of perfectly reasonable objections to it. "On a par with Exxon" is wing-nut level cranky though.
- raverbashing 6y ago> "On a par with Exxon" is wing-nut level cranky though. It's a hyperbole for sure. But how much CO2 have the nuclear closures put in the atmosphere
- bigfudge 6y agoSome, but CO2 is not the only concern here. Greenpeace is a broad-spectrum environmental campaign group. As I've commented elsewhere, I'm not inherently anti-nuclear, but cost is not the only issue. The political and institutional demands nuclear places on societies are substantial — and I don't see much evidence anyone has risen to them yet. Even big pro nuke places like France don't have fully funded schemes to decommission old nuclear plants. And in the US money taxed from generators has been corruptly spent on other things... Whether it's "fair" or not, this is a strike against nuclear because until we can safely decommission plants and store waste it's unproven tech and the costs (including externalities) are not fully known.
- revax 6y agoMainly the problem is phasing out nuclear power before coal. By doing doing so, we are losing 20 years in a race against climate change.