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And reprocessing is not economical, and requires us to build more reactors that can use the fuel, and creates additional steps where major disasters can happen.
by greenthrow 4y ago
And reprocessing is not economical, and requires us to build more reactors that can use the fuel, and creates additional steps where major disasters can happen.
Nuclear power is inherently too risky for its benefits. It creates too many opportunities for human error to cause irreversible damage.
When a solar farm gets hit by an earthquake it might stop working. When a wind farm gets hit by the storm of the century it might fall over. Nuclear reactors present existential threat and we have no need for it.
- PaulHoule 4y agoReprocessing was estimated to be more expensive than once-through but the effect on the price of electricity is not large. More important, once-through is not available. They closed Yucca Mountain so we have to do something else with the waste.