• VasyaSovari@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    @Atom Nuclear is green energy. The problem green activists have is the massive cost of nuclear plants, the timescale of getting them active, and the security concerns of them merely existing.

    Your post is not only deeply & deliberately misleading (that’s not what the comic says, even remotely), it’s also wrong and stupid. Well done.

      • Uranium 🟩@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        I thought vitrifying and subsequent underground storage is a pretty effective method of storage for many isotopes? Obviously it isn’t perfect, but it means no liquids to leak atleast.

        Also recent advances in fusion are exciting, though obviously only time will tell if they’ll get anywhere or just fizzle out…

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        1 year ago

        There are already prospects for long time storage, and some of these are in various stages of development. Finland may be furthest ahead. Even Norway (who’s not even considering nuclear power at the moment) is looking into converting their temporary storage of research waste to a permanent solution. Stable geological conditions are critical, but it’s technically very doable.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah but nuclear has one very important advantage over alternatives, it puts all the power in the hands of billionaires. Smaller companies, farmers, even home owners with a pv, wind grid could supply power locally allowing communities to be in control of their own energy requirements which will mean the billionaires won’t have such a tight and deadly grip on their lives - what next?! Allowing free communication over a community run internet? Food security without needing to work eight hour days in awful conditions?

      It doesn’t matter how we generate power at long as the billionaires are the only ones able to do it, everything else must be derided and attacked endlessly for the good of our precious oligarchy.