Hmm, personally I'm a big supporter of nuclear energy, but I can see the whole "not having any domestic uranium and needing to terrorize Africa to obtain it" as being a legitimate reason to be against it, in France anyway.
The droughts fucking up the cooling ability of reactors was also kinda scary so fair enough.
Yeah. No idea how well that argument holds up. It's an issue that affects all resources. You need lithium and various metals for renewables, and they need to be periodically replaced.
It's worth saying that there are in fact uranium deposits in France. 76,000 tons have been extracted from 1945 to 2001. Some resources we only pillage the third world for because you don't shit where you eat, but we could actually responsibly do at home (to an extent) if safety, compensation, and environmental clean-ups were guaranteed. Other resources are actually absent in certain countries, which does raise a significant problem to any country that wants to have a communist revolution, decolonize and leave the globalized world economy while preserving modern life standards in important sectors (medicine, energy).
Hmm, personally I'm a big supporter of nuclear energy, but I can see the whole "not having any domestic uranium and needing to terrorize Africa to obtain it" as being a legitimate reason to be against it, in France anyway.
The droughts fucking up the cooling ability of reactors was also kinda scary so fair enough.
Yeah. No idea how well that argument holds up. It's an issue that affects all resources. You need lithium and various metals for renewables, and they need to be periodically replaced.
It's worth saying that there are in fact uranium deposits in France. 76,000 tons have been extracted from 1945 to 2001. Some resources we only pillage the third world for because you don't shit where you eat, but we could actually responsibly do at home (to an extent) if safety, compensation, and environmental clean-ups were guaranteed. Other resources are actually absent in certain countries, which does raise a significant problem to any country that wants to have a communist revolution, decolonize and leave the globalized world economy while preserving modern life standards in important sectors (medicine, energy).