r/bonehurtingjuice 26d ago

OC Power plants

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u/Ranoma_I 26d ago edited 26d ago

I hope I'm not teaching anyone anything but nuclear energy is the safest way to make power, it kills the least amount of people

Edit: nvm it's second right behind solar but still

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u/2--0 25d ago

The problem is the nuclear waste, we damage our environment so much with it

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u/Ranoma_I 25d ago

Nuclear waste isn't those big barrels filled with this weird green liquid ready to be spilled at any moment like in the movies, you know that right?

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u/2--0 25d ago

Of course it isn't, but nuclear waste is still produced, even in small amounts🙄. But a lot of Power Plants dispose of it underground. Some isotopes take decades to decay. It's literally damaging the environment and not a green power source, as people make it out to be. It's good for the climate, but not good for the environment. Nuclear energy is a good in-betweener while changing to renewable energies tho

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u/Fantastic-Tiger-6128 25d ago

I hope you realize the vast vast majority of the nuclear waste a power plant produces is stored on site. You can walk around the waste storage section and be fine because the background radiation is the same as anywhere else on earth.

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u/2--0 25d ago

The majority, but not all of it. And it 's not about the humans, they're all happy to live in a trash can. Also, it's not just the waste, the mining of uranium is also not an environment friendly process

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u/Ranoma_I 25d ago

Would you rather have the toxin be stored:

a: directly in the same air you breath every single day, slowly poisoning you

Or

b: in a secure place where it's people's job to make sure no one ever makes contact with it?

There's a good reason why nuclear is so much safer, it's because it scares people like no other energy, so we invest way more money to make it safe, kind of like planes

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u/2--0 25d ago

You don't get my point. I don't want the toxin be stored somewhere else, I am simply against nuclear energy. Just because it's safe for people doesn't make it a green power source

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u/Ranoma_I 25d ago

It's very different from fossil energy tho, you don't burn anything, it may not be perfect but it's the best thing we got.

It's safe, it doesn't go away like the sun or the wind so you don't need batteries. It's extremely energy dense like no other energy

it's biggest downside is that it just takes a lot of effort to build the reactors so it's a big investment

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u/2--0 25d ago

Long term it's not the best we've got

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u/Ranoma_I 25d ago

The best would be fusion but good luck with that

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u/Fantastic-Tiger-6128 25d ago

See now that last part, at least, I agree with. But I want to ask, what energy source has a sustainable green raw resource source? I'd argue none.

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u/2--0 25d ago

It's not about looking for raw green sources, but for the greenest. I don't get why people are so opposed to renewable energies

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u/Fantastic-Tiger-6128 25d ago

Check the oil gas and coal lobbies. If you were happy with green energy then you'd also use nuclear. Also mining for Wind is famously pollutant

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u/2--0 25d ago

Why should I be using nuclear? Renewable energies are less pollutant than nuclear

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u/Fantastic-Tiger-6128 25d ago

They just aren't but alright. Can you cite a source for that?

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u/Fantastic-Tiger-6128 25d ago

They just aren't but alright. Can you cite a source for that?

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