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Colloquially speaking, which your conversation here is, nuke has always meant bombs not reactors. He's not pearl clutching, he's reacting to what sounds like un
by zaphar 4y ago
Colloquially speaking, which your conversation here is, nuke has always meant bombs not reactors. He's not pearl clutching, he's reacting to what sounds like unnecessarily negative terminology.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoIt unambiguously means nuclear reactor in context and is widely used. The only people who even pretend it doesn't are the ones simultaneously making disingenuous arguments about why renewables are terrible and we immediately need to drop them and wait 50 years for nuclear to save the day. The mock outrage is tiresome and transparent.
- deathcakes 4y agoWikipedia disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke As do I, I personally have never heard someone refer to a nuclear fission power plant as a nuke, but I guess I don't hang around with the same people as you...
- Schroedingersat 4y agohttps://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuke https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/nuke https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nuke https://www.dictionary.com/browse/nuke https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuke https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nuke Your mock ignorance is tiresome and transparent
- kennend3 4y agoAs i have posted here many times, i live very close to a nuclear power plant. Everyone in the area simply calls it "the nuke plant". It is a directional landmark : "yeah, so once you get to the nuke plant turn left...." "Once you see the nuke plant you know you are getting close".. Its full name is a mouth full : Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Citing wikipedia sometimes backfires.