Re:Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
by fsflover on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:45AM
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> think it's a good time to remind you that nuclear power is still dangerous
In comparison to what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power#/media/File:Deat...
> and the term "green energy"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464
> Between global warming and cancer, I choose global warming.
If you choose coal, you choose both: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_and_environmental_impac...
Re:Why Germans remain so jittery about nuclear power
by rini17 on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @07:41AM
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> Between global warming and cancer, I choose global warming. So did Germany and most of Europe. France and Britain need large nuclear reactors for breeding weapons materials, so there's no way around that.
Oh, you will get cancer either way. Every now and then highly carcinogenic crude is spilled into the environment. The ashes from fossil fuels contain heavy metals and radioactive elements, and are much harder to store or reprocess than nuclear waste.
But as you say it's now all sediment(sic). So let's hope we manage to produce enough bateries in time to carry through somehow. Or, more realistically, have enough natural gas.
Luckily, a large part of Europe's population, mostly the older ones, vividly remember the horror or the nuclear clouds moving over their countries, the scarce and delayed information received about the accident, the ambiguous and conflicting information about the contamination of crops and food supplies.
Between global warming and cancer, I choose global warming. So did Germany and most of Europe. France and Britain need large nuclear reactors for breeding weapons materials, so there's no way around that.
All the bullshit justifications with safer new reactor technologies - keep them to yourself. If anything, besides more expensive, nuclear reactor designs have been getting bolder and bolder. Molten salts reactors are pushed as a safe alternative; a joke that would make any chemist shudder.
This is just a reminder that we still exist and our opinions haven't changed, our willingness to express them in an online world dominated by corporate indoctrination however, has.