Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a...
by preisschild on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @01:50PM
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No you can't. Nuclear power plants werent very connected to nuclear weapons and the public didnt think of nuclear weapons when thinking of power reactors.
Only after anti-nuclear misinformation got huge starting in the 70s.
Re:How do you make safe, cheap nuclear reactors? Bury them a...
by RandomThoughts3 on Tuesday August 27, 2024 @02:06PM
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The key to understand what started in the 70s is obviously the Vietnam War.
The fact remains that nuclear opposition is rooted neither in safety concerns nor in environmental impacts. If you ignore that, you are condemned to always miss the point - which is often happening when people discuss the nuclear question to be fair.
This is not a battle of reason but a confrontation between two incompatible moral frameworks.
You can thank the USA and the war against Japan for that. It’s pointless to try to ignore that Hiroshima and Nagasaki did happen.
That’s the paradox. Nuclear fission probably would never have become viable without the massive investment in its weaponisation but the same weaponisation made it unpalatable as a source of energy.
I think there remains a deep seated association between nuclear energy, the nuclear weapon armed powers and imperialism amongst the members of most green parties, which are all historically alter-mondialist.