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[–] passiveaggressivesonar 20 points 2 weeks ago (26 children)

I really don't get this ackshually business about nuclear power, we're absolute idiots to not employ it more. Everywhere there's been a focus on nuclear power generation we're seeing reliable results over a long long timespan

[–] BluesF 1 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

It's sort of too late for nuclear though. They take years to build and cost a fortune. The time to invest in nuclear power on a large scale was probably 10 years ago (although, was it as safe then? I don't know)... Right now we need answers that get us away from fossil fuels much, much quicker. Nuclear may still be a part of the picture, but renewables are more pressing.

[–] CheeseNoodle 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thing is this has been said for longer than I've been alive, and will probably still be said after I'm dead, in the intervening 70-80 years we could have and could be actually building the damn things.

[–] BluesF 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thing is this has been said for longer than I’ve been alive, and will probably still be said after I’m dead

I'm not making this argument in the past, I'm making it now.

in the intervening 70-80 years we could have and could be actually building the damn things

Well, they are being built? It's not like the world has abandoned nuclear power. We need the base load, there's certainly an argument to use some nuclear, but the safety and waste issues mean it shouldn't really ever be our only way to generate power, at least until some of those problems are solved. Modern reactors are much safer than they once were, but as I said before - the fossil fuel situation is immediate and pressing. I'm not sure I disagree with anyone who made this argument in the past - renewables are a faster way to convert away from fossil fuels. It's more pressing now than ever, but it isn't a new problem and it's been urgent for a long time. Just because we failed to solve it before doesn't mean we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. What's your reasoning to focus on nuclear rather than renewables today?

[–] CheeseNoodle 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My reasoning is we should do both, nuclear and renewables both have useful properties in the short and long term and the idea we can't afford both seems ridiculous when we can apparently spend huge amounts of money on things like space tourism and giving amazon more money back in rebates than they paid in taxes to begin with.

[–] BluesF 2 points 2 weeks ago

Well I agree there. I think we should be focusing on renewables, but like I said I think we also need nuclear unless we can solve the energy storage problem.

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