Your comment just makes you sound like an asshole.
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Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Refreshing not to see the comment section full of anti-nuclear brainlets. For a second I thought Lemmy was a Greenpeace hot-spot.
Anyway…
One good turn deserves another. If others won’t follow because of good example, hopefully other countries will instead follow because of competition.
easily3667@lemmus.org 4 days ago
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Yes. I’ll be an asshole to those that stand in the way of good things. No remorse.
easily3667@lemmus.org 3 days ago
Yes, the universal unqualified good, nuclear fission. No reason to have any concerns in a highly regulated environment like modern day america or china. All concerns completely unfounded, and are just these damn Greenpeace guys getting in the way of progress.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
green peace is cool and all, but nuclear the only way forward, other than asking everyone nicely to use much less energy…
and supposedly the new molten salt thorium reactor design automatically shuts itself off and basically can’t have a meltdown… if that’s real it’s a great way forward….
well, except for all the nuclear waste, but i’m sure they’ll figure that out too….
cdkg@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yeah, thorium reactors can’t meltdown because they need to constantly being powered by thorium, sick you can find anywhere. There’s a 2008 or so bill gates Ted talk on nuclear power that talks about it. For better or worse, china is going to lead the world regarding energy (and economy, seeing all those trump tariffs)
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
i did see that TED talk… i saw someone say that’s just the reactor design that’s safe, and uranium couldn’t melt down in that type of reactor either….
but that was just some comment and i’m not qualified to speculate on it… but meltdowns are the biggest problem with nuclear, imo….
i think we should just dump all of our nuclear waste off the coast of japan… and hopefully generate some kaijū
Tattorack@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Radioactive nuclear materials comes from the Earth. All one has to do is put it back in the Earth. Finland built a massive underground nuclear waste storage facility, but there are also technologies being developed to reclaim nuclear waste (because only a very small amount if the material actually gets used in the fission process).
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
pretty sure it’s not so simple….
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 days ago
For the amount of actual nuclear waste, it kind of is. Earth is so huge and the amount of waste so small, that you could bury some under a mountain somewhere and chances are high that it would never see daylight again nor would never be found by anyone in the future.
Even despite this, extraordinary measures are taken to make sure nothing escapes the containment until such time that Earth’s crust has completely rolled down into the mantle or the mountain erodes, which by then it wouldn’t be nuclear waste anymore.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s a lot simpler than the majority of humanity reverting to pre-industrial lifestyles.
Rakonat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Tell me you don’t know anything about nuclear energy without saying you don’t know anything about nuclear energy.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
you don’t know anything about nuclear energy
Rakonat@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I know enough to know that if you’re worried about pollution from Nuclear then you should be worried about all the waste products in production of solar panels which can be extremely toxic. And that if you’re specifically talking about the amount of radiation a megawatt reactor will produce in it’s life time you should never venture anywhere close to a coal burning plant because the amount of radioactive material they let loose into the atmosphere is orders of magnitudes greater than you could get from a uranium reactor, with thorium reactors being predicted and shown in small scale testing to have significantly less dangerous byproducts left over. With several theories and proposed designs for fusion and thorium reactors that could recycle spent fuel and further reduce the amount of high level waste a facility would have at the end of it’s life cycle, because unlike all other forms of energy generation, the nuclear facilities contain and keep their waste products on site for decades and only transfer it off site during decommissioning.