It’s kind of ironic when you think about it, the amount of fearmongering around nuclear power has actually led to more damage to the environment. Through burning fossil fuels for energy instead of using nuclear power there has arguably been more damage over time than all nuclear disasters in history. Just felt the need to write that, thanks for creating this community!
It’s quite a rabbithole. My “favorite” is the fearmongering around reactor waste products. People resist nuclear because we “need to store the waste”, even though we can reprocess it back into fissable fuel. But also we “can’t” do that, because that process can potentially be hijacked to produce nuclear materiel.
Both are valid concerns, but it shouldn’t be an impossible problem to solve. Especially these days, knowing how destructive some of our other common fuel sources are.
I mean in the end the goal should be 100% renewables anyway.
For now we have enough uranium for several centuries just in the existing, recyclable nuclear waste that we have in storage. There’s no immediate need to switch away from uranium. There is a very pressing need to switch away from fossil carbon ASAP, and the amount of batteries we’d need to go 100% renewable right now isn’t quite doable yet.
In the long term, 100% renewable is the way to go.
In the very long term, let’s say millions of years, I’d say we should build a dyson swarm. Does that count as renewable or nuclear?
Battery technology is advancing at high speed. Currently the main objective is to switch off carbon heavy industry, however its often “replaced” with nuclear, wich has a loooong build time.
Instead there should be more renewables to replace coal etc. Right now.
Its infinite times less harmful than the amount of plastic in the ocean.
Agree, and welcome! I just made this community, you’re the first guest!
Oh cool hi
