Comment on Texas becomes leading test ground for small nuclear reactors

reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s such a small, manageable concern compared to the damage that is done by fossil fuels.

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  • CannonFodder@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is, unless it’s distributed in a plume because Texas environmental regulators suck.

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    • Kayday@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s what the NRC is for.

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      • HumbleExaggeration@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        And they have enough people to maintain and inspect the hundreds of thousands of reactors that are going to be built, if those small reactors work?

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      • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Haha that’s a good joke.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nuclear waste is a bigger threat to health than carbon dioxide in fact. That is truly a wrongheaded opinion, and one that you likely got from smelling the farts of the nuclear industry that has been on a decades long pr campaign to influence the weak minded, (that’s you.)

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    • FlexibleToast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not even close to true. Nuclear waste is actually very manageable.

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• Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Get out, oil shill.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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    • Psionicsickness@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Read a book, idiot.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nuclear energy has their own shills.

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• felbane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Natura’s research reactor is designed to first prove the LFMSR concept at megawatt scale, then be converted to prove that MSR reactors can reprocess existing nuclear waste as a percentage of its fuel. Which means we could take all of the current stockpile of nuclear waste and re-burn it to the point that it’s 90% consumed (instead of 5% consumed today) and leave a waste product that decays to safe levels extremely quickly (tens of years).

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’ll believe it when I see it. This is the state that fracked everything and then spread its radioactive, pfas-infested fracking waste all over the land. Now they’re building elementary schools on top of it.

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• frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Given the track record of a lot of projects, they’ll store it on site because actually dealing with it costs money, until it leaks and then they’ll disappear and a bunch of people get horrible diseases and the federal government will spend everyone’s tax dollars to clean it up.

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• Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It appears, Texans.

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• hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Taxpayers, or no one. It only stays toxic for a half million years!

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