Comment by kingleopold

14 hours ago

coal kills more people, this is a fact. so with blocking nuclear lead to coal, so they indirectly supportered killing thousands, incredible stats really. who said art can't be bad for the public?

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kev009  13 hours ago

A hidden danger of coal is ironically the radioactivity of its waste, which gets put into concrete products and contribute to indoor air quality issues.

The paranoia around nuclear power is tied to generational fear mongering of governments during the Cold War. The oddest part is why not use safer reactor designs; water reactors make sense for the US Navy and not on land.

  • rob74  3 hours ago

    Then again, if we hadn't had the Cold War and the associated nuclear arms race, we wouldn't have had civil nuclear power either, so...

    • Tangurena2  2 hours ago

      According to the author of The Curve of Binding Energy [0], civil reactors were being subsidized by the purchase of plutonium (from the spent fuel rods) by the Department of Energy [1] to the tune of $1,000,000 per kg of Pu. The end of this program was coincidentally at about the same time as the Three Mile Island incident which leads many people to think that reaction to TMI was the reason that US reactor construction stopped.

      When the Senate ratified some non-proliferation treaties, that also ended reprocessing spent fuel in the US which gets blamed on Carter.

      Notes:

      0 - https://www.amazon.com/Curve-Binding-Energy-Alarming-Theodor...

      1 - The DOE owns all of the US nuclear weapons and leases them to the DOD.

  • 9dev  7 hours ago

    None of you ever manages to answer the waste storage question. That was, and still is, one of the deciding factors in Germany, for example.

  • mejutoco  8 hours ago

    > The paranoia around nuclear power is tied to generational fear mongering of governments during the Cold War

    And Chernobyl. And Fukushima. Nuclear is great but it has some very real risks