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Where are all the people that say nuclear energy is cheap, totally safe and fool proof except for one time having an unsafe design or another time building it o
by fluxem 3y ago
Where are all the people that say nuclear energy is cheap, totally safe and fool proof except for one time having an unsafe design or another time building it on a shore for water access or building it in the future war zone or …?
- kevingadd 3y agoI suspect most nuclear energy advocates are not necessarily advocates of manufacturing nuclear weapons, which AFAIK is the source of this spill. See https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/AboutHanfordCleanup https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/AboutHanfordCleanup
- fsh 3y agoFrom the article: In the 1980s one of the building’s six hot cells was being used to prepare concentrated radioactive cesium and strontium from Hanford plutonium-production waste for Germany to use for testing of a repository for radioactive waste. Hanford was used for weapons manufacturing, but the research project was on nuclear energy (Germany never had a nuclear weapons program).
- lockhouse 3y ago> (Germany never had a nuclear weapons program) Technically they did, but I know what you meant (not since World War 2)... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nuclear_weapons_program
- karaterobot 3y agoThis isn't good, but it's an old spill, and not even one we just learned about. And, it doesn't change the fact that nuclear energy is without doubt incredibly safe, nor the likelihood that our world would be better off today if we weren't so irrationally scared by it, or so unforgiveably willing to overlook the millions of deaths from fossil fuel pollution every year.
- Georgelemental 3y agoNuclear weapons fuel (what this site was producing) is far more dangerous than what civilian reactors use, as it contains an order of magnitude more fissile isotopes. The vast majority of nuclear accidents have been military, not civilian.