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[–] ThePyroPython 139 points 1 week ago (30 children)

So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?

[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (13 children)

Yes. Water + spicy rocks. Everything else is solar power, which is also nuclear power, but with the spiciness in the sky instead.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fun fact. Coal plants release more radioactive materials than nuclear plants.]

Except the ones that blew up. Those ones were extra spicy.

[–] chaogomu 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

It's just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

Now, it's not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

How many average coal plants per Chernobyl though. I suspect that number is surprising lower than the total number of coal plants.

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