Comment on Planned UK nuclear reactors unlikely to help hit green target, say MPs
Womble@lemmy.world 8 months agoJust when gas prices were spiking and countries that were heavily invested into nuclear were making massive profits and their citizens spared the worst of the price increases, I was reminded of Cameron cancelling the new generation of nuclear power plants in ~2010 as they wouldn’t be ready until 2022.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 8 months ago
Yeah, and then you ask which industry might have profited from it. I swear to God, if nuclear hadn’t been a real threat to the coal and petroleum industry 50 years ago, it would never have gotten the reputation it got. Imagine where we could have been.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 8 months ago
Oh and what’s a few meltdowns between friends?
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 8 months ago
Are we still yammering about Tsjernobyl in 2024? Ask France how they are doing, or USA.
If you’re genuinely worried about radiation According to estimates by the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s coal-fired power stations currently generate waste containing around 5,000 tonnes of uranium and 15,000 tonnes of thorium. Collectively, that’s over 100 times more radiation dumped into the environment than that released by nuclear power stations.
FireTower@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nuclear energy still has caused much less irradiation and deaths than coal.
Diplomjodler@feddit.de 8 months ago
How much death and irradiation have renewables caused? I mean, I get it, coal is shite. Nobody wants coal. But that’s absolutely not an argument for nuclear.