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    1 day ago

    Fact is, Nucular is extremely

    Nuclear* FTFY


    Nuclear is expensive

    Yes, but our continued use of fossil fuels will be exponentially more expensive with regards to global warming.

    Nuclear power is hard to control, dangerous

    No, it is very safe and well known, Chornobyl, TMI and Fukashima are the major accidents in nuclear power, TMI was caused by a badly designed and missunderstood control system, Chornobyl was caused by a bad reactor design combined with a culture of secrecy, Fukashima was caused by a natural disaster combined with a bad location.

    We have learned from this and modern nuclear power plants are safe to the point of being boring.

    Nuclear power has no real waste solution

    This is just plain wrong. Dealing with nuclear waste is simple and a solved problem.

    You dig a deep hole, put the waste in protected caskets and backfill with clay, done.

    As a Swede I am a huge proponent of Sweden/Finland/Norway building massive nuclear waste storage facilities and taking on the responsibility for taking care of the global nuclear waste, we have a stable bedrock, stable political systems, plenty of unused land and have experience building underground structures, a nuclear waste facility for global waste would also create jobs.

    You claim that proponents of nuclear power just parrot influencers with no original thought or are invested in nuclear power.

    The same could absolutely be said of the anti-nuclear supporters, you keep repeating the same old arguments with no original thought for your self, and what is worse is that plenty of the anti-nuclear propaganda is backed by oil/coal/gas companies.


    I am not an idiot, I realize that the future of energy is with renewables, I have seen articles about how nations have had days where they are only using renewables to power themselves.

    But I don’t believe we should be waiting to shut down fossil fuel plants until renewables are ready, I believe we need to design a drop in replacement for fossil fuel plants now, not tomorrow, not next year, not in a decade, now. And the only resonable way is nuclear power.

    Nuclear power is not the power of the future, it is an interim solution as we transition to renewables, meaning we can stop using fossils much faster than else.

    So, let’s imagine if the idiotic overreaction of the “Atomkraft, Nein danke” movement had failed, and we had built nuclear plants rather than coal, gas and oil, I absolutely believe we would have not seen as big of a rise in global temperatures in the last decades as we have seen, we would have better air and water, and it would just be better.