To Save the Planet, Should We Be Moving Slower?

Re:To Save the Planet, Should We Be Moving Slower? by katbyte on Friday July 21, 2023 @11:56PM (#36823090)

We’ve fucked up a lot of nuclear reactors? At my count it’s 2. 2 out of over 400 over 60? Years.

And while solar is great, you still need base-load and for most places in most cases solar + storage can’t do that.

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Re:To Save the Planet, Should We Be Moving Slower? by kaba0 on Saturday July 22, 2023 @03:58AM (#36824332)

2, one in the Soviet Union with known-to-be unsafe technology with bad incentives around control. The other happened as the result of the biggest recorded tsunami in Japan and human error, again.

With that said, cooling reactors need a bit of rethinking with this warmup, rivers may no longer be fine to use.

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Re:To Save the Planet, Should We Be Moving Slower? by katbyte on Saturday July 22, 2023 @12:47PM (#36827708)

not to mention coal kills more people via radiation yearly then have died from those 2 reactor accidents

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