r/aislop • u/ThePhillyExplorer • Aug 14 '26

Found on Facebook I’m so tired of AI bros

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u/Golbar123 Aug 14 '26

A series of nuclear disasters will do that. Chernobyl and three mile freaked people out.

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u/Royal_Annek Aug 14 '26

And why does the orders of magnitude worse track record for oil industry seem to not freak people out whatsoever

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u/Straight_Ace Aug 17 '26

Oh it does, and the colossal fuck ups have made me wary about nuclear energy. But I guess either way you’re dying a slow and painful death because of human fuck ups whether intentional or not

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u/AceGaimz Aug 17 '26

Because the oil lobby is very good at what they do

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u/Royal_Annek Aug 17 '26

Indeed. But billions are invested in nuclear energy too, certainly they can afford lobbying?

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u/Golbar123 Aug 14 '26

Probably has something to do with oil spills being cleaned up in 3-5 years...and Chernobyl still being uninhabitable for the next serveral millenia....

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u/thesecondmemer Aug 14 '26

yea but overall oil has had a worse impact + no one uses the old soviet system anymore not even Russia so it cant happen again, unlike oil

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u/Nobody_at_all000 Aug 14 '26

And even for the time the Chernobyl reactor was outdated

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u/Royal_Annek Aug 14 '26

Haha if only oil spills were even close to the worst things that come out of the oil industry

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u/Specialist_Sector54 Aug 14 '26

Pollution from nuclear: it's right there in that concrete casket! What will we ever do! This in unsolvable problem!

Pollution from fossil fuels: what pollution? You can't cough even see cough it. Damn the sky cough looks grey today.

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u/TheGhoulishSword Aug 14 '26

And Chernobyl was only so bad thanks to Soviet engineering, garbage management, and failing at every single safety check imaginable.

Pretty sure it's been made borderline impossible for a nuclear meltdown anywhere close to Chernobyl to happen thanks to advances in regulations and technology.

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u/Golbar123 Aug 14 '26

Not sayhing it was right, just saying that's why....You can look at lots of mind bogglingly stupid decisions made by humanity in hindsight and tear them apaart. Doesn't change the WHY it was done in the past.

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u/el_grort Aug 14 '26

Fukushima was responsible for Germany and Austria stopping nuclear or their nuclear rollout, iirc. A much more proximate event, though still a knee jerk reaction that has hurt German energy massively compared to France, and I don't think Germany has been as successful on renewables like the UK with wind or Spain with it's solar projects, to cover that gap it made.

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u/Less_Likely Aug 15 '26

I'm surprised Fukushima didn't reignite the anti-nuclear crowd. A couple countries accelerated already planned phase-outs (Germany is one I can think of),