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And their vote counts more than yours because they live in rural districts with lower populations. Smh at "democracy."
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I hate the nuclear hate. Maybe today we have better options, although micro-reactors have a lot of promise, but if we invested in nuclear energy 50 years ago our planet would not even be close to fucked up.
People are always fearful of the nuclear accidents but they don't even come close to those killed in the extraction of fossil fuels, but poor lives don't matter. God help anyone has to bear even a miniscule risk for their own energy production.
Thanks for listening to my rant
Thank you for your rant. It is exasperating how people completely dismiss nuclear and politicians go right along with them.
I have one problem with nuclear: It HAS to be done responsibly or you FUCK UP EVERYTHING FOREVER. And...find me a government on this earth that can "responsibly" anything.
I thought the primary problem with nuclear is that it is incredibly expensive?
And the big roadblock is it takes way longer than an election cycle to get online, so there's little to no incentives to start a project of one. Renewables have the advantage of going online within that window.
Private insurance for the project is incredibly expensive. But there are ways to go about it differently, if the will is there.
Looking it up to refresh my memory, it looks like there's also the comparably very high construction cost and the cost of disposal and/or maintenance of the waste. Those feel like fairly fixed costs. Unless we can make those cheaper without sacrificing safety and worker pay, it seems like nuclear just isn't economically practical.
One of the issues that often gets swept under the rug is that nuclear power only covers electrical energy needs, unless you do clever stuff. But one of the reason the world has used so much fossil fuel is because lots of industries use it directly.
https://californiapolicycenter.org/how-much-fossil-fuel-is-left/
Sure it only makes up about 80% of global power production.
Every other use is minimal comparatively
People on average have a higher risk of exposure to radiation by going to their grandma's for dinner than by living directly next to a nuclear power plant