What ‘cult-like’ love would this be? If you are in a climate emergency it’s worth exploring all energy options and nuclear is one option for helping with baseload. It would be dumb to ignore it.

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ViewTrick1002 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If it is an emergency why waste money on multiples more expensive nuclear power rather than renewables and storage?

We still need to decarbonize tons of other industries so why waste money on the one we have solved?

Good enough beats imaginary engineer perfect solutions.

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zwnow 17 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just cut off the general public from power for like 1/6th of the day instead of going for unsafe solutions. Considering the amount of bullshit we power nowadays we can surely live without power for some hours of the day until we find better solutions.

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NitpickLawyer 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's nothing inherently unsafe about small nuclear reactors. We've been using them safely since the 50s. You can look it up, you have the entire history of the world at your fingertips. Here's a fun fact: the bloke that was the first commander of a nuclear powered submarine (1954!) went on to be the first commander of a nuclear powered boat. And he got to live till 90+ yo. The tech is safe. The fear-mongering people are boring. It's literally the reason we can't have cool shit.

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zwnow 16 hours ago | parent [-]

Whats ur solution to nuclear waste?

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gazpacho 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What’s your problem with nuclear waste? And what’s your solution to the waste produced by solar/wind?

	▲	pfdietz 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The waste produced by solar/wind is no different that waste produced by general economic activity. The US produces about 600 million tons of construction and demolition waste each year; solar/wind waste will be small fraction of this. So, the solar/wind waste bugbear is a red herring, since dealing with it involves solving a problem that would have to be solved in a nuclear-powered economy also. The opposite is not true of nuclear waste: there is no high activity radioactive waste stream in a non-nuclear economy.

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realusername 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You just store it?

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roenxi 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

That sounds like a pretty unsafe solution, it'll injure people. What if a member of the general public trips while stumbling around in the dark? Or gets food poisoning from improperly refrigerated food?