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Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by hedora on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:34PM (#29126706)
Also, solar apparently pollutes a heck of a lot more than nuclear.

It’s still > 100x better than fossil fuels, and I’m still putting some on my roof, but the figures in the article are surprising.

Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by natmaka on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:43PM (#29126767)
Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by erentz on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:12PM (#29126921)
The thrust was correct according to your source, or am I misreading it? Nuclear median 12, Solar 48 (4x nuclear), gas 490 (10x solar), coal 810 (20x solar).
Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by natmaka on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:02PM (#29127126)
Yes, it was, however this dates back 2014 and solar recycling is progressing, and becomes more and more legally mandatory in industrialized nations.

Solar panels: operators now reach ~80% recycling (glass, metal, silicon, plastic).

Wind turbines recycling is also quickly progressing.

Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by acidburnNSA on Saturday November 06, 2021 @12:48AM (#29127617)
Nuclear waste recycling is also progressing.
Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by natmaka on Saturday November 06, 2021 @03:03AM (#29128085)
Many old industrial setups are now closed, and there are not many new projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#List_of_s...

Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by xcskier56 on Friday November 05, 2021 @09:54PM (#29126833)
Citation please
Re:Nuclear power is the best climate-change solution by erentz on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:24PM (#29126974)
From TFA: "Jacopo Buongiorno, a nuclear-engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has calculated that over the life cycle of power plants, which includes construction, mining, transport, operation, decommissioning and disposal of waste the greenhouse-gas emissions for nuclear power are 1/700th those of coal, 1/400th of gas, and one-fourth of solar. Nuclear also requires 1/2,000th as much land as wind and around 1/400th as much as solar. For any given power output the amount of raw material used to build a nuclear plant is a small fraction of an equivalent solar or wind farm. Although nuclear waste is obviously more difficult to dispose of, its volume is 1/10,000th that of solar and 1/500th of wind. This includes abandoned infrastructure and all the toxic substances that end up in landfills. One person’s lifetime use of nuclear power would produce about a half-ounce of waste human mortality from coal is 2,000 to 3,000 times that of nuclear, while oil claims 400 times as many lives."