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U.S. ambassador to Japan will publicly eat Fukushima fish amid radioactive water release outrage (fortune.com)

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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Only an idiot wouldn't persue it when it is one of the safest, most reliable, and least polluting (including renewables) options. Radioactive waste is minimal, and modern reactor designs can reprocess it. It is easy to contain, though we do need a solution for long term storage that doesn't really exist yet, but that's basically just some location to bury it. There is enough material to last us for the foreseeable future while we develop other sources to be able to rely on 100% of the time.

[-] cloud@lazysoci.al -3 points 1 year ago

It's not the safest by any margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

It's not the most reliable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Crisis_since_late_2021

It's not the least polluting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_%27Ndrangheta

There is enough material to last us for the foreseeable future while we develop other sources to be able to rely on 100% of the time.

There are enough alternatives to ditch nuclear already and rely on better sources

[-] erusuoyera@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

It's not the safest by any margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accident s_by_country

From that link...

Relatively few accidents have involved fatalities, with roughly 74 casualties being attributed to accidents and half of these were those involved in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.[6]

Compare that to estimated 7 million killed every year by pollution from burning fossil fuels.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths

[-] MattMastodon@mastodonapp.uk -2 points 1 year ago

@erusuoyera @cloud

#Nuclear is an expensive, uninsurable, unviable tech kept afloat by usually authoritarian government subsidies that produced waste that will be around for thousands of years.

Nuclear fission is a dead end technology.

Wind, Solar and Battery tech will be in place in a fraction of the time and for less cost.

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