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> I feel people are just blindly following the data driven narrative I really wish nuclear proponents would take a data driven approach. It would essentially s
by tstrimple 3y ago
> I feel people are just blindly following the data driven narrative
I really wish nuclear proponents would take a data driven approach. It would essentially stop the conversation right there. Instead we have to deal with ridiculous scenarios talking about the safety of nuclear power immediately followed by "we just need to remove these regulations which make it too expensive to operate" as if one has absolutely nothing to do with the other. The energy sector in the US is ran for profit. If there were a profit to be made off of nuclear power, energy companies would be all for it. Yet instead they just keep putting up more wind farms that they can realize profit from after 12-18 months instead of spending billions of dollars and decades on a project that may never see completion.
- nickpp 3y agoNuclear is has the lowest number of deaths per unit of energy produced [1], except Solar. At the same time it's also the heaviest regulated. These two, are, of course, connected. Isn't it logical that we shuld search for a middle ground by reducing regulation while taking care the number of deaths per megawatt doesn't exceed the worst current climate change culprits: gas, oil and coal?! [1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-production-per-twh https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
- realusername 3y agoI doubt that solar is so low, just the few deaths from the roof installers will go over the figure given there