Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over the next nineteen years

Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by quonn on Friday August 16, 2019 @02:54AM (#20712766)

Nobody knows where to put the waste, failures are catastrophic if rare and they have turned out not to be that rare if enough plants are deployed. As I said, it was a long discussion. Nobody wants to reopen it and I‘ll leave it at that.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by sjwright on Sunday August 18, 2019 @12:16AM (#20728203)

As opposed to coal, oil, gas etc where we know where to put the waste—into our atmosphere. That's great. Let's shut down the nuclear and keep the coal going until renewables step up.

But for a few paranoid NIMBY protesters, everyone knows where to put nuclear waste—send it to breeder reactors.

Also, catastrophic nuclear failures are not deadly. Radiation from Fukushima has killed 1 person. And despite being the most absurd scenario possible to contemplate, radiation from Chernobyl killed between 30-100 people.

In 2011, there were 163 wind turbine accidents in England that killed 14 people. Wind kills more people than nuclear, and nuclear makes orders of magnitude more electricity.

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Re:Germany to close all of its coal-fired power plants over ... by mav3rick on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:00AM (#20735528)

You are joking if the radiation hasn't affected generations in those places.

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