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Despite all the stories about the accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear power is one of the safest ways to produce electricity -- (edited)

Posted by spamlet Oct 29 '21, 10:59

being responsible for just 0.07 deaths per terawatt-hour generated, while coal and oil are responsible for 24.6 and 18.4 deaths respectively

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-28/abandoning-nuclear-power-would-be-europe-s-biggest-climate-mistake (www.bloomberg.com)

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What about wind power? I hear that's terrible. -- nm - Mop Oct 29, 11:42 4
- 0.04 so slightly better than nuclear. -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 12:17 2
  - But considerably worse for the birds. - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 29, 12:23 1
    - They don’t exist anyway -- nm - spamlet Oct 29, 12:40
- I am doing my own research on all this. -- nm - Spawn Oct 29, 11:49
Ignore. Incognito worked -- nm* - Krusty Oct 29, 11:27
But 50% of the mutation attacks. -- nm - Spawn Oct 29, 11:12 1
- MUTO attacks? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 11:22
Folks forget that Three Mile Island had a second reactor which continued to operate and was only taken offline in 2019. -- nm* - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 29, 11:09 4
- Isn't chernobyl still partly operational? -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 11:19 3
  - Iirc. They shut down the other 5 reactors right away. -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 11:20 2
    - "The three other reactors remained operational after the accident but were eventually shut down by 2000" -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 11:23 1
      - I think they were planning on building 2 more before they blew the roof off -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 11:58
But John, when the Pirates of the Caribbean ride breaks down, the Pirates don't mutate and make an exclusion zone 100 miles in diameter... -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 11:03 1
- Fun fact, before Standard Oil made product standardized, some 50,000 people a year were burned, killed, injured -- (edited) - zeitgeist Oct 29, 11:06
Now, if it didn't generate waste that takes thousands of years to not be deadly and presents serious storage issues. - TWuG Oct 29, 11:03 7
- Apparently emerging SMR technology helps deal with that issue too, according to the link Beaker shared. -- (edited) - znufrii Oct 29, 11:10 6
  - I'd rather risk a solar spill or wind leakage than rely on systems (run to maximize profit) to prevent deadly accidents - TWuG Oct 29, 11:15 5
    - solar and wind can't be used as baseload. You have to have oil/gas/hydro.nuclear -- nm - Beaker Oct 29, 11:37 3
      - You don't. For wind/solar you also need storage. - TWuG Oct 29, 11:39 2
        
        Just zap the extra around the circuits continuously like Snowpiercer. -- nm - Full Size Candy Baron Oct 29, 12:05 1
        
        That’s…not how electricity works? -- nm - znufrii Oct 29, 12:08
    - You're not wrong, but if 40 years of anti-nuclear-protest had been applied to climate change instead, maybe we'd be in a better place. - Beryllium Oct 29, 11:18
All the anti-nuclear-power people of the 60s-70s-80s were duped -- nm* - Beryllium Oct 29, 11:00 4
- got equated with Nuclear weapons -- nm - Beaker Oct 29, 11:37 3
  - Washington state had both, and nuclear waste. -- nm - . Oct 29, 14:06 1
    - still the worst site in the country, getting worse too, we'll have contaminated columbia river soon -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 29, 14:22
  - Yes. Duped by special interests. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 29, 11:38

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