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Dr. Bobsky
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Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: UK's most densely packed city. It's not London...
 
2021-02-20, 15:22

You don't want a nuclear power plant constructed within two years in your backyard, so why should you suspect anyone else would.

Alternative reactor designs are decades away from commercialisation; new reactors can take decades to build safely. These aren't the solution now when the next ten years are hypercritical to prevent humans from dying off as our waste overwhelms us.

Besides: central power supplies are passe for good reason (you want to generate power where it is needed to reduce transmission losses and make a 'grid' resilient).

This discussion of nuclear power is a proxy for something else, a whataboutism that lets you escape the fact that we are, with every ounce of oil and chunk of coal, killing ourselves at a prodigious rate, which will only accelerate going forward.
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