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A power generation system that can't lose power itself without resulting in a major disaster is far from 'superior'. What I mean is the spent nuclear fuel must
by bottlepalm 4y ago
A power generation system that can't lose power itself without resulting in a major disaster is far from 'superior'.
What I mean is the spent nuclear fuel must be kept cool at all costs, backups are finite. There's already been a few accidents and many close calls, none as bad as they could of been. Scale up nuclear to find how to bad it can get.
The NRC said so itself - https://www.science.org/content/article/spent-fuel-fire-us-soil-could-dwarf-impact-fukushima https://www.science.org/content/article/spent-fuel-fire-us-s...
- vesche 4y agoI think fear-mongering about nuclear power risks is really unfortunate. The rewards far outweigh the risks. Sure, we could live in a world where we could tell everyone to stop using so much damn energy- but that's not our reality. There's some really good data and charts here (especially the "What is the safest and cleanest source of energy?" diagram at the top) - https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth In the USA we've poured an incredible amount of money into wind energy and it simply hasn't been very effective relative to the cost.