• TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com
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    fission is bad for us

    “sHoW yOUr WoRK!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island#Runit_Dome

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

    The first light bulbs ever lit by electricity generated by nuclear power at EBR-1 at Argonne National Laboratory-West, 20 December 1951.

    That is a lot of “accidents” for an energy source less than one 80 years old. We only have so many places to store the waste. And the accidents.

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        Yeah, but keep in mind that nuclear waste has some time left to do damage. It’s not like a hydro plant is going to come back and haunt you in a 100 years from now. That’s what worries me with nuclear, aside from the fact that it’s too slow to build to be a solution to the climate crisis.

        Solar, wind and hydro should be top priority in my opinion.

        Edit: Want to add energy storage to top prio as well, as that is needed to balance the grid.

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          It’s not like a hydro plant is going to come back and haunt you in a 100 years from now.

          the ecological impact of it, probably will. But that depends on whether you consider altering the ecological environment a “bad” thing or not.

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              there is actually a significant history with hydropower, back when it was growing as fast as it could. We discovered that it had significant ecological impacts, in particular on things like salmon migration here in the US, so now we have to seed rivers, and have done that since we’ve built most of those plants.

              There’s a reason it’s fallen out of favor. Although pumped hydro i think is uniquely equipped since it’s not nearly as disruptive as building a massive dam in a huge river.

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      fukushima was entirely a skill issue, just don’t

      TMI was entirely a skill issue, and didn’t even release any significant radiation as far as we can tell. Didn’t even breakthrough the PCV, so this probably shouldn’t even be on the list.

      chernobyl was a bad design, and a skill issue, plus a few other skill issues.

      the runit dome was from atomic bomb testing right? Not even real nuclear power, it may have been a fission bomb, but i’m not looking into it far enough. Weird that you don’t mention nagasaki or hiroshima in that case.

      the hanford site, i’m not familiar with, but im guessing this is a development plant? And probably just procedural skill issues? There have been a number of smaller accidents, most of which are due to people being stupid.