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[–] jungle 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How is nuclear energy "still fossil"?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

It isn't but it has all the same downsides as fossil fuels in terms of being dependent on some countries for fuel imports, extraction being extremely environmentally damaging, limited supply,...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is a limited resource we dig out of the ground in countries we don't want to be depending on, because to do it in our own countries is too dirty for us. Then we use this bound energy and convert it into heat we release into the atmosphere. The only thing missing for being technically "fossil" is that it's originated from organic matter.

Short from that, it definitively classifies as not renewable, not sustainable, dangerous, not climate neutral, expensive, antquiated idea. And in the sense of being an antiquated idea at least, it is "still fossil".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is not fossil, but i agree that we should switch over to use the term renewable instead, because that's the goal.