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GreyShuck@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 年前

Planned UK nuclear reactors unlikely to help hit green target, say MPs

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Planned UK nuclear reactors unlikely to help hit green target, say MPs

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GreyShuck@feddit.uk to United Kingdom@feddit.ukEnglish · 2 年前
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Government plans to deliver SMRs ‘lack clarity’ say environmental committee, and will likely fail to meet clean-energy goal of 2035
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    Yeah, and then you ask which industry might have profited from it. I swear to God, if nuclear hadn’t been a real threat to the coal and petroleum industry 50 years ago, it would never have gotten the reputation it got. Imagine where we could have been.

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      Oh and what’s a few meltdowns between friends?

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        Are we still yammering about Tsjernobyl in 2024? Ask France how they are doing, or USA.

        If you’re genuinely worried about radiation According to estimates by the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the world’s coal-fired power stations currently generate waste containing around 5,000 tonnes of uranium and 15,000 tonnes of thorium. Collectively, that’s over 100 times more radiation dumped into the environment than that released by nuclear power stations.

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        Nuclear energy still has caused much less irradiation and deaths than coal.

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          How much death and irradiation have renewables caused? I mean, I get it, coal is shite. Nobody wants coal. But that’s absolutely not an argument for nuclear.

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            It depends on the method here’s a chart:

            To be clear I don’t oppose renewable green sources, I just feel the benefit of nuclear merit it to be used along side renewables.

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