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Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by lwhi on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @06:41PM (#27136047)
I have a belief that human ingenuity will be able to generate truly clean power. If you believe that too, then this period of nuclear usage, is a transitory period.

If this transitory period has the ability to create substances that will potentially cause bother to generations living in thousands of years time, I think that's a problem.

Quite simply there are alternatives.

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Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by 2trill2spill on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:12PM (#27136338)
> I have a belief that human ingenuity will be able to generate truly clean power.

There's no such thing as truly clean power. Even renewables have huge environmental consequences. Hydro floods huge areas of land[1]. Renewables and batteries require huge sums of metals to be mined[2]. Solar and wind also take up huge sums of land that could otherwise be left alone. Everything has trades offs, there's no reason nuclear cant be one more tool in the tool shed.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/09/canada-site-c-...

[2]: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/electric-vehicles-drive-up-...

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Re:What Is a Nuclear Microreactor? by lwhi on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @07:20PM (#27136409)
> There's no such thing as truly clean power.

Yet

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