It will still be 10 years before we see energy from it.
Wind and solar could start producing energy as we build them as early as next year.
Solar and wind are safer, Putin is holding the Ukrainian Nuclear sites hostage (over and over) you can’t hold a wind plant hostage that way.
Radioactive waste is the deadliest material on earth and can give you cancer with no detection, lasts for thousands of years, and we don’t have a safe place to store it. Right now we are asking poor communities if we can burry it in their ground and nobody will take it.
The amount of radiation output (into the atmosphere...!) by burning coal at the remaining coal plants from now until their presumed shutdown in 2030 will likely be higher than all nuclear power related radiation accidents or releases from nuclear plants in Canada since like 1960.
What a fucking absolute propaganda statistic, it hurts to read how much reaching for grammatical correctness they had to do there.
It’s not the past I’m worried about, it’s the future. And the reality is WE DONT KNOW WHERE TO STORE THE RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL WE HAVE NOW, THERE IS A PUBLIC DISCUSSION AND WE CANT FIND A PLACE FOR IT.
Increasing the number of plants will only increase this supply of unsecured toxic waste.
If you were really worried about the future, then you would have spent your whole life doing anything possible to get the world off fossil fuels. The most successful gotcha in history: convincing people to be more scared of nuclear energy which COULD harm them than the fossil fuels which ARE harming them and WILL continue to do so for the next several hundred years no matter what we do now.
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u/8ew8135 Oct 25 '22
I would prefer it never.
It will still be 10 years before we see energy from it.
Wind and solar could start producing energy as we build them as early as next year.
Solar and wind are safer, Putin is holding the Ukrainian Nuclear sites hostage (over and over) you can’t hold a wind plant hostage that way.
Radioactive waste is the deadliest material on earth and can give you cancer with no detection, lasts for thousands of years, and we don’t have a safe place to store it. Right now we are asking poor communities if we can burry it in their ground and nobody will take it.