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Although I've stopped replying to comments like yours 10 years ago, when the same sediment was prevalent at reddit and the nuclear-pushing thinktanks made their
by mateo1 5y ago
Although I've stopped replying to comments like yours 10 years ago, when the same sediment was prevalent at reddit and the nuclear-pushing thinktanks made their first steps in the new online world of consensus manipulation, I think it's a good time to remind you that nuclear power is still dangerous, Chernobyl happened right in Germany's back yard and the term "green energy" isn't some kind of take on Cherenkov radiation or fluorescence.
Luckily, a large part of Europe's population, mostly the older ones, vividly remember the horror or the nuclear clouds moving over their countries, the scarce and delayed information received about the accident, the ambiguous and conflicting information about the contamination of crops and food supplies.
Between global warming and cancer, I choose global warming.
So did Germany and most of Europe. France and Britain need large nuclear reactors for breeding weapons materials, so there's no way around that.
All the bullshit justifications with safer new reactor technologies - keep them to yourself. If anything, besides more expensive, nuclear reactor designs have been getting bolder and bolder. Molten salts reactors are pushed as a safe alternative; a joke that would make any chemist shudder.
This is just a reminder that we still exist and our opinions haven't changed, our willingness to express them in an online world dominated by corporate indoctrination however, has.
- rini17 5y ago> Between global warming and cancer, I choose global warming. So did Germany and most of Europe. France and Britain need large nuclear reactors for breeding weapons materials, so there's no way around that. Oh, you will get cancer either way. Every now and then highly carcinogenic crude is spilled into the environment. The ashes from fossil fuels contain heavy metals and radioactive elements, and are much harder to store or reprocess than nuclear waste. But as you say it's now all sediment(sic). So let's hope we manage to produce enough bateries in time to carry through somehow. Or, more realistically, have enough natural gas.
- fsflover 5y ago> think it's a good time to remind you that nuclear power is still dangerous In comparison to what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#/media/File:Death_rates_from_energy_production_per_TWh_(including_solar).svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#/media/File:Deat... > and the term "green energy" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464 > Between global warming and cancer, I choose global warming. If you choose coal, you choose both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impact_of_the_coal_industry#Radiation_exposure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impac...