Who the fuck cares if we use the same material to make energy instead?
If something goes wrong - not talking about intentional mischief - it's pretty damn expensive and lots of people get sick. As has happened in Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island. Furthermore, as of now nobody knows how to deal with the waste.
Since solar and wind power are so much cheaper per kWh and also not as dangerous, it's economically and ethically sound to not build nuclear power plants.
France has used nuclear for almost 100% of its power generation for like 70 years and all the waste takes up like a 5x5 yard cube because they reprocess it. Yeah it's still dangerous and 10000% needs to be taken seriously, but I would state it isn't nearly as bad as mountaintop removal for coal power. You can see that shit from space on Google earth, the applalacians look like they have leprosy from all the destruction.
Hard disagree, what about the Land? Wind and solar energy end up being dependent on massive tracts of land that would be better off as wilds but instead must support some level of constant human interaction to support the wind and solar repair and maintenance. A thorium nuclear power plant is capable of out producing all of them more efficiently (because sometimes the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow) while taking up a fraction of the footprint of either. Not to mention every nuclear accident ever is more or less a steam explosion because of the necessity for pressurized water in a uranium light water reactor. Thorium reactors simply do not have the same capacity for explosive failure because they do not require super heated pressurized water to act as a medium for the heat from the radiation. Also the waste from Thorium reactors has a much shorter half life than what comes out of Light water reactors and could theoretically be used in other applications including other kinds of reactors.
If something goes wrong - not talking about intentional mischief - it's pretty damn expensive and lots of people get sick. As has happened in Fukushima, Chernobyl, or Three Mile Island. Furthermore, as of now nobody knows how to deal with the waste.
Since solar and wind power are so much cheaper per kWh and also not as dangerous, it's economically and ethically sound to not build nuclear power plants.
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people were brainwashed into thinking nuclear waste could not be contained at all by fossil fuel companies.
France has used nuclear for almost 100% of its power generation for like 70 years and all the waste takes up like a 5x5 yard cube because they reprocess it. Yeah it's still dangerous and 10000% needs to be taken seriously, but I would state it isn't nearly as bad as mountaintop removal for coal power. You can see that shit from space on Google earth, the applalacians look like they have leprosy from all the destruction.
Hard disagree, what about the Land? Wind and solar energy end up being dependent on massive tracts of land that would be better off as wilds but instead must support some level of constant human interaction to support the wind and solar repair and maintenance. A thorium nuclear power plant is capable of out producing all of them more efficiently (because sometimes the sun don’t shine and the wind don’t blow) while taking up a fraction of the footprint of either. Not to mention every nuclear accident ever is more or less a steam explosion because of the necessity for pressurized water in a uranium light water reactor. Thorium reactors simply do not have the same capacity for explosive failure because they do not require super heated pressurized water to act as a medium for the heat from the radiation. Also the waste from Thorium reactors has a much shorter half life than what comes out of Light water reactors and could theoretically be used in other applications including other kinds of reactors.