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Bedshaped posted:Nuclear fission in it's current form is: The thing about nuclear waste is its highly hazardous, but its also highly concentrated and containable. Coal power also produces highly hazardous waste, but its neigh impossible to contain so we just say "gently caress it, run it through a mostly useless filter so people feel like we're doing something and then dump it in the air". We're far better off with an occasional nuclear disaster than we are with the guaranteed environmental, health, and economic damage caused by coal plants working as intended. Also most of the nuclear waste we produce can be recycled into usable fuel but we're not doing it because politics. Renewables should be developed, but they're far more limited by location and other constraints than nuclear is. Ultimately, even places with abundant renewable energy resources will need other sources to supplement it, and a lot of places don't have great options for renewable energy. OtherworldlyInvader fucked around with this message at 20:07 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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