Nuclear power plants-yay or nay?
Yay, but only if they’re not built, or run, by people. Nuclear power is the future, but it’s complicated and dangerous and has to be done right. As soon as you add people into the mix - in all their greedy lazy stupidity - it becomes a hundred times more dangerous. If someone can cut a corner somewhere to earn an extra buck, or to speed a boring job up, or simply because they can’t be bothered, they will do it. If the Japanese, with their corporate pride and strong work ethic can fuck a nuclear plant up, what hope do the rest of us have?
Three-Mile-Island.
Nay.
They're not ideal, with all the nuclear waste they generate, but they're probably better than burning fossil fuels, especially given our struggle with climate change. Though I'm not sure what's worse between fossil fuels and nuclear power in Japan where apparently codes/maintenance aren't strict enough, given the TWO meltdowns they've had that have dosed the entire world with radioactivity..
Big yay from me, all the other forms of power produce incredible levels of waste. A single coal plant will produce 240,000 tons of toxic waste in a year. They are also heavily deregulated, radioactive coal ash is just dumped en masse into our garbage system and much of it is just allowed to drift into the wind. Solar energy is even worse, creating absurd amounts of waste IRENA projected that this amount could reach 78 million metric tons worldwide by 2050. Plus, and this is the thing people don't talk about this waste will be toxic on a geological timescale. There is NO half life for the lead and lithium in solar power waste. Wind power is the most wasteful by FAR. there are 57,000 wind turbines in the United States, each made of between 40 and 160 tons of steel and need to be replaced every 20 years. That's over 28500000 tons of steel in a hundred years assuming we don't expand our wind power.
Nuclear is also the safest by far, in the US more people die every year installing solar panels on their roofs than have ever died from nuclear accidents. Hydroelectric has massive waste and upkeep problems, in addition to disrupting the environment and being a threat to our food supply. Geothermal is impractical. Biomass burning is a disaster for air quality, just look at how it messed up China and India. There are no real options for green power other than nuclear. Plus, nuclear recycling of waste is pretty efficient and is getting better every year. https://whatisnuclear.com/recycling.html
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