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I genuinely don’t understand why nuclear energy isn’t being pushed like at all…
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Anonymous 1d

for the same reason renewables aren’t. the fossil fuel industry. if you like nuclear, look towards China

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Anonymous 1d

#2 has clearly “done their own research” which means listening to lies they’ve been fed by big oil company shills instead of actually doing their own research

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Anonymous 21h

For two reasons: 1) Trump-era Republicans deliberately tank anything that isn’t fossil fuels, and 2) getting a nuclear power plant built is amazingly difficult and expensive. So the industry needs legislative help to really get moving, but Republicans will never allow that help to get passed into law. It doesn’t help that most people are scared of the idea of a nuclear power plant being built near them

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Anonymous 1d

Ever heard of Hiroshima and Nagasaki or Chernobyl? Yeah

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

This comment is so dumb lmao

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

Woahhh nuclcer energy same as nucklaer bomb?

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1d

No but if nuclear is more accessible then it becomes easier to create them and other stuff of that nature

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

We should just make atomic nucleus illegal

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 1d

i mean that’s where the majority of fissile materials are locked away in… weapons. it’s a valid critique of nuclear, especially given that it’s not a renewable energy and is still dependent upon a fuel that has to be extracted and refined. said fuels are obtained via imperialism, see France in Niger, and the US and Canada in indigenous North American nations

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 1d

There are methods of extracting nuclear energy that don't make weapon grade nuclear elements as a byproduct

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 1d

Notably thorium/plutonium reactors, think Sam O Nella did a video on it

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Anonymous replying to -> _orangutan 10h

It might not be “renewable,” but it’s clean and the nuclear waste is far less of a problem than people think it is. The amount of waste produced is small, and recyclable. The benefits FAR exceed the negatives. It’s far more reliable and efficient, while taking up significantly smaller land footprint.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10h

And according the department of energy, one ~1 inch pellet of uranium has the same output as 17,000 cubic feet of natural gas, 120 gallons of oil, or 1 ton of coal. It needing a fuel source seems a much smaller problem compared to fossil fuels when you make that comparison.

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Anonymous replying to -> #8 10h

I feel like people should be getting better educated on the improvements since the Chernobyl era that scares everyone. The difficulty and cost of building a plant is a fair point though I didn’t think about that. Lots of people would most definitely be put off by such a large up front investment.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 10h

Fuck Trumpies

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