Look up deaths per kWHr of different energy sources and come back to me
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zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
One time? Wikipedia says over 100 serious incidents and lists about 30 of them. en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nuclear_and_…
It’s fine if you like nuclear, just don’t try and claim it was one time. It poses serious risk and should be treated as such.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It has that low death rate precisely because it is heavily regulated.
The typical nuclear booster argument works on the following circular logic:
“Nuclear is perfectly safe.”
“But that’s not the problem with nuclear. The problem with nuclear is its too expensive.”
“Nuclear is expensive because it’s overly regulated!”
“But nuclear is only safe because of those heavy regulations!”
“We would have everything powered by nuclear by now if it weren’t for Greenpeace.”
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 year ago
This exactly. But they keep shilling nuclear power regardless. Super silly tribalism.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
That’s not my point and I’m already aware.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The house burning probably happened more than one time too.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
The alternative is not necessarily oil.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It feels like it is otherwise we wouldn’t possibly use it.
Imagine dangerous drilling, all the complex refining, the mass transpiration systems around the world moving billions of tonnes, etc. It’s stupid and complex. The system to enable it was somewhat forced & def forced to maintain it, it’s well documented actually.
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 year ago
Just put it somewhere noone lives like the Dakotas or places people who don’t matter live, like west Virginia. All the coal miners getting cancer anyway, why not double tap?
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Low blow on West Virginia. Cool state and nice people. Hoping to move there someday.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Depends. Is there a McElroy brother nearby? Awesome. No? Hmm. Not as sure.
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The coal mining industry employs about 38,000 people. Dunkin Donuts alone employs seven times as many people as the whole coal mining industry. There just aren’t that many coal miners anymore.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Most of those didn’t involve the magic rocks, and most didn’t hurt anyone.
More people die creating the building materials for a powerplant (or a windmills, or a solar panel) than ever during operation. The numbers really don’t matter.
I honestly don’t care what we do, as long as we stop burning coal, oil and gas. The way I see it, every nuclear plant and windmill means we all die a little later.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
This is the way. Nuclear is actually one of the safer energy sources, and one of the more reliable. It’s also more expensive than most renewables. As always it comes down to local conditions and situations that favor one power source over another - like countries with lots of geothermal that can be exploited or solar probably won’t go nuclear.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yet it still has much lower deaths per energy generated than fossil fuels, and even less than some renewables. A single hydro accident can kill more people than even the worst nuclear disasters. It’s not fair to pretend that all the other sources are perfectly safe.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
Who’s pretending they’re safe? The only pretending I see in the meme is about nuclear. But if you want to argue with something I didn’t say, have at it I guess.
areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 year ago
You can’t call nuclear dangerous when it’s literally safer than many other energy sources. It’s like calling Caffeine dangerous when meth exists.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 1 year ago
Caffeine is dangerous and can kill humans in large doses AND meth exists. It’s not one or the other, genius. Please mainline some caffeine to prove your point. Meth exists, you’ll be fine.