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That’s an odd thing to say. Almost as if you’re in favour of nuclear for nuclear’s sake? Plenty of people have reasonable reservations about use of nuclear, not

That’s an odd thing to say. Almost as if you’re in favour of nuclear for nuclear’s sake? Plenty of people have reasonable reservations about use of nuclear, not least the social /political ones of where to store waste that are still mostly unsolved. Blasting fission cores into space on rockets with fairly high failure rates in absolute terms seems like a fairly fine balance to strike?

23B1 3y ago
Probably depends on your risk profile. Do we find new ways to safely generate energy using nuclear, or slowly cook ourselves alive on the planet's surface? Or to put it another way, at what point should we throw a Hail Mary in the energy demand game?
- honeybadger1 3y ago
  People here tend to run to extremes when they disagree with something. I am not here to detail out every individual practical application for nuclear energy; I am also not here to say where it should be avoided. Something something naysayers have a problem for every solution. There is and has been a anti-nuclear sentiment when it comes to energy written in media for quite a few years and seeing that sentiment be turned around is positive. I am convinced(and it's just an opinion) the negative portrayal of nuclear energy is directly related to the financial influence that oil and other energies have over many sectors of the economy and government.
randallsquared 3y ago
You don't need to store nuclear waste, since you can burn it up in some fuel cycles. Essentially all the problems of nuclear power on the ground are political issues -- entrenched interests, weapons proliferation, and so forth -- not technological ones like safer reactors and nuclear waste.
- bigfudge 3y ago
  That really does hand wave away a lot of important details. Those problems on the ground are the reason I am generally not pro nuclear… not because intrinsically I think it’s a bad idea to split atoms.

23B1 3y ago

Probably depends on your risk profile. Do we find new ways to safely generate energy using nuclear, or slowly cook ourselves alive on the planet's surface? Or to put it another way, at what point should we throw a Hail Mary in the energy demand game?

honeybadger1 3y ago
People here tend to run to extremes when they disagree with something. I am not here to detail out every individual practical application for nuclear energy; I am also not here to say where it should be avoided. Something something naysayers have a problem for every solution. There is and has been a anti-nuclear sentiment when it comes to energy written in media for quite a few years and seeing that sentiment be turned around is positive. I am convinced(and it's just an opinion) the negative portrayal of nuclear energy is directly related to the financial influence that oil and other energies have over many sectors of the economy and government.

randallsquared 3y ago

You don't need to store nuclear waste, since you can burn it up in some fuel cycles. Essentially all the problems of nuclear power on the ground are political issues -- entrenched interests, weapons proliferation, and so forth -- not technological ones like safer reactors and nuclear waste.

bigfudge 3y ago
That really does hand wave away a lot of important details. Those problems on the ground are the reason I am generally not pro nuclear… not because intrinsically I think it’s a bad idea to split atoms.