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Re:Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks by dctoedt on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:31PM (#39809639)
> And they cost us half a century of progress on decarbonization in the process.

They also likely prevented more Chernobyls and Fukushimas. Whether that was a net gain is something that can be debated, of course.

Re:Filling Nuclear Power's $5T Hole Is Beyond the Banks by palata on Monday March 25, 2024 @06:52AM (#39814657)
From my point of view, both those events did not have catastrophic outcomes. Also Chernobyl is a special case (nobody makes similar reactors, so it's not like it's an existing risk in every plant).

Everything has an impact on the environment, you won't find a silver bullet here. But you have to compare the solutions. Fossil fuels are orders of magnitude worse than nuclear, even considering a Chernobyl once in a while.