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> As we stand today, we built 667 nuclear power reactors and 2 of those went bust with significant damage to the communities close to the reactors. The body cou
by jason0597 5y ago
> As we stand today, we built 667 nuclear power reactors and 2 of those went bust with significant damage to the communities close to the reactors. The body count is hard to pinpoint but large communities had their lives uprooted and everything could have went worse if we lacked heroes.
You could very easily make the same argument about climate change. What about the Amazon fires, Australia fires, California fires? The floods in Germany? Countless people had their lives uprooted from climate change (which was caused by many things, including CO2 emitting electricity generation)
- turbinerneiter 5y agoI don't think any of the people who are sceptic about fission are pro-fossil-fuels. I, for example, see the future in renewables plus storage, distributed and optimized for the local situation. I accept fission as something necessary right now to buy time. Maybe I'm wrong and fission is the better answer than renewables, but long term I feel like it's the same can of worms that fossil fuel was all over again. I just hope we can make smart decisions that help us fight climate change short, mid and long-term.