With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?


Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I’m more depressed than when I posted this

  • Jakob :lemmy:A
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    What is safe on Nuckear Power Plants?

    It’s enough for hundredthousand of years, if only one time happens a SuperGAU. Only once is enough.

    And the nuclear waste is dangerous as fuck for also hundredthousand of years.

    And you can produce 30, 40 or maybe 50 years electric energy, and it needs the same time to decontaminate and dismantle a nuclear powerplant. And before it takes 20, 30 or mor years, to build such a plant… This is not cheap, not safe and not sustainable.

    • @updawg@lemm.ee
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      I don’t trust the US Federal government to properly dispose of it. The waste from the Manhattan Project is buried in a landfill, a landfill that’s on fire.

      • @BigNote@lemm.ee
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        110 months ago

        The problem isn’t fire, it’s that the waste at Hanford has leached into the soil and a plume of it is headed towards the Hanford Reach on the Columbia River. There’s a mitigation plan in place and it looks like it’s ultimately going to work, but it’s very expensive and not something that anyone wants to see happen again.

        • @updawg@lemm.ee
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          210 months ago

          I was referring to the Westlake Superfund site in St Louis right next to the Missouri river

          • @BigNote@lemm.ee
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            310 months ago

            Fair play. That said, please do look up Hanford. It’s way bigger than Westlake and is potentially a much bigger problem, though granted, Westlake is problematic as well.

    • @Zangoose@lemmy.one
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      110 months ago

      Nuclear waste is not dangerous when handled correctly. I’d recommend checking out Kyle Hill on YouTube about this, but when mixed with cement/sand in large amounts it becomes safe much more quickly than that. A lot of the dangers of nuclear power are actually misconceptions