• Pistcow@lemm.ee
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    9 hours ago

    Ok maaaybe nuclear power can be safe but it owned and operated by humans.

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      3 hours ago

      Including all nuclear power plant disasters, it still has far fewer deaths per gigawatt hour compared to everything except large scale solar installations (not personal rooftop solar, which is much higher due to falls). It’s the money, not the safety, that’s the problem.

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        28 minutes ago

        Safety per gigawatt hour sounds like it doesn’t take into account what we do with all the radioactive waste of which there’d be much more of if nuclear power was scaled up drastically.

        Could do with some more, especially more modern versions with less waste product and more efficient generation.

        Could do with more solar, too.

        But as you say… The Money™.

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          All nuclear waste ever produced could be safely stored in less than a square mile (Plus a radius around that to prevent idiots tampering with it). The safety issues of it are greatly over exaggerated most of the time. The problem with that, is that storing nuclear waste safely is relatively (though not extremely) expensive.

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            Doesn’t increasing the concentration of nuclear waste make it’s effects much more dangerous?

            And sorry to pick for more info, but what’s the volume of waste in that one square mile?