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Re:Nuclear power may be the key to least-cost, zero-emission... by fsflover on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @05:43AM (#30344880)
This is ad hominem. Nuclear doesn't generate the CO2.
Re:Nuclear power may be the key to least-cost, zero-emission... by bipson on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @06:20AM (#30345122)
Hm, no, I don't think that's ad hominem.

I didn't say nuclear does generate CO2. I said it produces waste, and that I have a definition of renewable that does not include nuclear.

You first shifted the goalposts and said it is "green" (what is "green"?? who defines "green"?), citing sources. I discredited the sources, since it these are just announcements, made by (political) institutions, where politicians lobby for a re-labeling of certain energy sources, because it suits their agenda.

None of this makes nuclear "renewable" in my book.

IMO the world renewable implies something in the line of "self-regenerating"/"grows naturally"/"replenishes" and producing toxic waste in my world-view is orthogonal to that meaning.

And don't try to explain that nuclear waste is non-toxic, I think my interest in discussing this really ends there.