fukishima was only 13 years ago, go sell your bullshit someplace else, i ain't buyin
Nuclear waste is incredibly safe and disasters simply don’t happen anymore because of how strict safety protocols are
downpunxx@fedia.io 2 months ago
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Fukushima was not a nuclear waste storage site
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s all very well claiming that nuclear waste storage is safe but you can’t guarantee anything can be kept safe for 10000 years. Humans haven’t managed that for anything, ever.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can’t really guarantee anything. What we do is play the odds. And the odds are pretty good.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Except you have no emperical basis for judging the accuracy of those odds.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Actually I do. Simply look at injured people because of nuclear power and compare them to injured people because of any alternative.
Wooki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes, you can.
It’s been stored in the ground since the earth was formed.
kaffiene@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not in a highly refined form
Wooki@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s been stored in the ground since the earth was formed.
toaster@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I certainly agree that we’ve gotten much better at safely producing and storing. However, with climate change worsening, we continue to have unprecedented natural disasters in unexpected areas which concerns me the most.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 months ago
What kind of climate change disaster do you think would cause problems with nuclear waste storage?
The_Terrible_Humbaba@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
This getting heavily downvoted with no replies shows just how much of anti-nuclear is simply based on propaganda and fear mongering, not science. Nuclear is the second safest energy source in the world, nearly tied with solar for first, and actually was the first until not too long ago. And that is despite the heavy investment into renewables and disinvestment into nuclear. If anyone is that worried about the dangers of nuclear to people and the environment, they should turn their attention to hydro-energy (not to speak of fossil fuels, obviously).
What are even the major disasters regarding nuclear? One, Chernobyl, was in the USSR in the 80s; does any remember what phones looked like in the 80s? The other was in Fukushima, which is located in a country known for earthquakes and tsunamis, and it was not build to handle such events; and it still was nowhere near as bad as Chernobyl. I think I’ve also heard about one in the UK, but that was in the fucking 50s, and even smaller than Fukushima.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The US had the 3 mile island disaster in the 70s. But I think the actual radioactive release was negligible.