Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental Energy Woes

Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by flavius29663 on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:11PM (#35660236)

> - one of the plant regularly leaks radioactive material

You need to quantify whenever talking about radiation, otherwise it's meaningless. Granite countertops also leak radiation, same as bananas.

Also, coal powered plants leak radiation every time they burn coal...because coal is radioactive too. They also release mercury, which is why we can't eat too much tuna fish.

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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by eric-burel on Friday April 21, 2023 @05:56PM (#35660758)

I mean, accidental leak and nuclear plants are not my fav word combination, even when it's limited quantities of tritium

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Re:Nuclear Power Is the Answer to Global and Environmental E... by evilos on Friday April 21, 2023 @06:31PM (#35661122)

You'd hate to be anywhere near a coal plant then. They absolutely spew radiation and don't even really try to contain it.

Fact is, every kind of energy is dirty in some way. Nuclear energy is one of the cleanest kinds of energy we have by far. It's just people have been taught to have an irrational fear of radiation. They don't realize they are constantly surrounded by it already.

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