• @[email protected]
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    1146 months ago

    Man thats fucking vague click bait headline. What isotope? How much activity? What was in the water? Nah lets not talk relevant details, lets just spread uninformed fear of the nuclear industry instead.

    • @[email protected]
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      -436 months ago

      The clean-up operation is expected to take decades, with the most dangerous part — removing radioactive fuel and rubble from three stricken reactors — yet to begin.

      Nothing to see here, people. We have everything under control. Like, we totally know what we’re doing.

        • @[email protected]
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          6 months ago

          Your house is on fire, but the good news is I just saved a lot of money on my car insurance.

          The lesser of 2 evils is not a compelling argument for energy consumption when the Earth is dying.

        • @[email protected]
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          -236 months ago

          Tell that to the tens of thousands of people that were displaced. And the alternative to nukes is obviously not fossil fuels but renewable energy.

          • @[email protected]
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            206 months ago

            The Three Gorges dam displaced an approximate 1.3 million people, is of questionable structural integrity because of rushed construction, has had a huge impact on its immediate environment and in the event of a breach endangers 400 million people. While that monstrosity is an outlier, in most instances the construction of a dam will displace a lot of people and carries a sizable risk of breach if the construction isn’t carried out properly. Should or shouldn’t hydroelectric be considered environmentally friendly?

            • Deceptichum
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              Hydro is the 70s idea of green.

              See how people usually only talk about wind/solar rather than suggest building more dams?

              If anything places are starting to dismantle dams to restore ecosystems.

              • @[email protected]
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                26 months ago

                Wind and solar have relatively short material lifespans that are expensive or impossible to recycle. It’s all a double edged sword. There is no single solution that will work everywhere on this planet.

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                I know what nuclear power is, I’m just confused as to why someone would use the word nukes, which is clearly associated with the ammunitions.

                Nuclear power has its place in the energy generation system alongside natural energy sources.

                • @[email protected]
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                  46 months ago

                  Sorry if I was vague, I meant the person you were replying to doesn’t know what nuclear power is, which is why they use a fear mongering term like “nukes” to describe nuclear power.

      • R0cket_M00se
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        216 months ago

        Yeah, you’re right. It’s not that they’re trying to be careful and prevent more damage, it’s going to take that long because they’re stupid. /s

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          -266 months ago

          Nobody knows how long they’re going to take because they still don’t have a fucking clue about how they’re going to do it. I’m not blaming the people working on this stuff, my point is that this technology is still uncontrollable despite what all the apologists keep trying to tell us.

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            -196 months ago

            It’s more than apologists. For a number of years now, across most social networks, the nuclear lobby has planted astroturfers. You can’t get humans to agree on shit, yet anyone touting nuclear power as the savior of humanity in the face of climate change is a transparently obvious corpo plant with all of the same talking points as each other. It was just a matter of time before the propaganda took organic roots in real people.

            Let’s never explore wind/solar/hydro power. Only nuclear.

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              196 months ago

              How about we explore all of them instead of shutting down nuclear and replacing them with natural gas. Like they did in New York after Cuomo said nuclear was a part of New York State’s green energy plan. Am I a corpo plant now? No corporation is pushing nuclear right now. It’s too expensive and has way too long of a ROI.

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      While you’re right about the nitty gritty specifics of the case, the nuclear industry needs no help spreading fear of itself. Fukushima happened 13 years ago. Not exactly ancient history. Worst nuclear disaster of all time.

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          For those of you who were confused by Maya, like me, it is the Mayak or Kyshtyn accident.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyshtym_disaster

          That being said, I don’t think the nuclear industry of today should be hamstrung by Soviet incompetence and corruption from the 1950s. I mean these guys at this location were running open loop cooling circuits into the lake and river. We know better than this nowadays.

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        86 months ago

        And has since been learned from. That reactor design is no longer used, specifically because of that. It would take more than just negligence to get a modern reactor to fail. Spreading fear of nuclear benefits no one and harms everyone.

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        16 months ago

        Yeah, Fukushima was almost as bad as climate change! Good thing we phased out nuclear to focus on fossil fuels!

        • @[email protected]
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          16 months ago

          Never said that I m actually pro nuclear but I had to say that Fukushima wasn’t the worst nuclear accident

  • gregorum
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    66 months ago

    Shugo has been sniffing the uranium again…

  • Dr. Coomer
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    06 months ago

    SiiiiiiiiiiiwOOOOOOOOooo this shit hit diffrent than regular cocain. What’s it made of?