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Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by ZeroGravitas on Thursday December 28, 2023 @05:44AM (#38792097)
Are you suggesting that a death due to an explosion at a plant owned by "PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel" counts against batteries, because some of them use nickel, but not nuclear plants, which pretty much require nickel-containing stainless steel for its anti-corrosion properties?
Re:First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in opera... by defrost on Thursday December 28, 2023 @07:04AM (#38792611)
No.

I'm stating that to date all mining and processing of resources involves deaths, multilations, long term disease, etc.

I'm asserting that to date the cumulative deaths from the nuclear power industry do not yet equal the deaths from a single Bhopal disaster (pesticide processing, half a million people exposed, many dead).

I'm putting forward as a simple fact that as wind, solar, batteries, etc continue to scale up from the small sliver of total global energy they currently are to ideally matching the current percentage of coal there will need to be a substantial increase in the tonnages of nickel, copper, lithium, and more that are mined, concentrated, processed and extracted and that comes with substantial increases in the wastes associated with these industries and the known risks to human life.

I would suggest that anybody making a human risk argument on any single portion of the energy industry look broadly at the risks across the board.

It's perfectly fine to chest beat about safety, I'm for it.

It's callously indifferent to only give a damn about a few deaths in a sector not approved while ignoring those in sectors liked.