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Re:Turning nuclear waste into diamond batteries by fsflover on Saturday April 23, 2022 @05:24PM (#31138713)
>> Nuclear power is considered a clean energy source because it has zero carbon dioxide emissions;

> This is flat out wrong.

No, it's not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26673987 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26603464.

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Re:Turning nuclear waste into diamond batteries by jannemann on Saturday April 23, 2022 @06:05PM (#31139094)
Every energy source does require some sort of energy to make it possible to harvest it. And nuclear is no exception. We do not have any sustainable way to filter out enough carbon dioxide with any of the hypothetical excess energy. So saying there is a any energy source without any carbon dioxide emission is wrong.
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Re:Turning nuclear waste into diamond batteries by gruturo on Saturday April 23, 2022 @08:29PM (#31140093)
> Every energy source does require some sort of energy to make it possible to harvest it. And nuclear is no exception

Indeed, and neither are solar, wind, hydro or any other - they all have environmental impact for producing the panels, turbines, dams, etc. So there are actually no exceptions at all, anywhere, which makes the classification completely useless. Could we get back to the topic now?

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