Anonymous
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Would you want to live next to a pile of radioactive dust? Do you have a safe place to store the waste for literally millions of years? Do you think it's wise to have a baseload dependent on 5 or less factories in the entire world?
There is no such thing as a free lunch. We need to reduce our energy-consumption, AND reduce the world-population, AND transition to "walkable cities".
Anonymous
People are stupid , or at best , simply irrational ..
Nuclear is, and should be , a necessary and significant part of our energy generating mix for the foreseeable future .
We have to have a base load generating capacity ,and a generating capacity that can back up "intermittent" power sources, such as solar and wind .And the least climate changing source is nuclear.
Only "blind" environmentalists can't see that .
Weasel McWeasel
Hmmmmmmm-.....let me think............Three Mile Island........Chernobyl. .......Fukishima.........which are now radioactive ghost towns..........Yeah, we keep claiming we KNOW what we are doing.........
well, three uninhabitable cities on the planet, say otherwise.
Kerri
People fear nuclear power plants because they can meltdown/blow up and when they do, the fallout and carnage has the potential to kill immediately and for hundreds of years later from radiation. Nuclear power is clean and effective but unlike a coal mine fire or electrical power grid failure that can be contained or repaired quickly, nuclear plant disasters can be catastrophic for generations. See..Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, Fukushima.
Anonymous
Because of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and most recently the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan.