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Environmental Baddies 6w
Three mile island was one of the worst industrial disasters in American history, because of the anti nuclear backlash it caused which led to us sticking to coal. And coal kills
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Anonymous 6w

Fun (?) fact: coal puts more radiation into the atmosphere every year than three mile island ever did. Coal contains two isotopes of carbon: carbon-12 (which is stable), and carbon-14 (which isn’t). When you put that CO2 in the atmosphere, the carbon-14 will undergo radioactive decay, and release radiation into the atmosphere over time. I fucking hate coal.

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Anonymous 6w

I’m glad somebody understands this. Too many environmentalists are anti nuclear for no reason other than fear. It would solve so many of our problems

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Anonymous 5w

It didn't lead to sticking with coal...it lead to alternatives that don't generate dangerous toxic radioactive waste, like wind and hydro

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 6w

Quick note: we still haven’t really solved the “nuclear waste problem” yet. Most nuclear waste in the US is kept on-site at the nuclear plant it was generated at. There was going to be a central place to store it in Nevada but that faced a ton of public backlash (rightfully in my opinion, as Nevada is the original victim of nuclear colonialism). There’s a bunker in Finland that is meant to keep all the nuclear waste of the whole world in one spot, but it isn’t open yet.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5w

French nuclear tech recycles their waste for even more energy

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 5w

That only works to a point though; I’m not familiar with their methods (and honestly most of it is probably classified) but regardless, you can’t keep cycling it infinitely, eventually the ratio of U-235 to U-238 is too far off and it’s just waste. It’s hard to even extract thermal energy from waste because it would just irradiate your mechanism.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5w

Fear of nuclear waste and private interests having control over something that could cause so much damage. it isn't coal vs nuclear

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 5w

That’s only true in Germany in the 2010s and 2020s. I grabbed this graph from Wikipedia, im pretty sure there’s a similar one showing the effect of Three Mile Island in the US, but the data may be incomplete and I don’t have a lot of time before class starts lol

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