Comment on Planned UK nuclear reactors unlikely to help hit green target, say MPs

• 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.

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• FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nuclear energy still has caused much less irradiation and deaths than coal.

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  • 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.

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    • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It depends on the method here’s a chart:

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      To be clear I don’t oppose renewable green sources, I just feel the benefit of nuclear merit it to be used along side renewables.

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