Hey if you spiritual but not religious types could not fuck this up like the boomers did we would all appreciate it. I get it, you got pyramid power and The Secret. I don't care. That is your concern. Once you start shilling for OPEC it becomes our concern.
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To my understanding we don't have an energy problem. We have a problem of industrialization in combination with global capitalistic tendencies. No wonder the article mentions the following:
The International Energy Agency, which outlined what many experts say is the world’s most realistic plan to decarbonize, sees a need to more than double nuclear energy by 2050.
Also, taking into consideration how dangerous nuclear accidents are, not only I don't feel any safer with this technology -no matter how much it is praised- I feel literally scared when I hear statements like:
But a nuclear renaissance is coming, the IEA says.
The problem as I see it is all your statements are "I feel" and "I fear" with no sources about anything either way.
The following is related to SMRs:
And on the problem of Indutrialization some elements can be found here:
What Are Some of the Drawbacks of Industrialization? - Investopedia
Summary of "Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism" by David Harvey
Would the above satisfy you @JungleJim?
Also, taking into consideration how dangerous nuclear accidents are, not only I don’t feel any safer with this technology -no matter how much it is praised- I feel literally scared when I hear statements like:
you should look into the stable salt reactor design.
Passively safe, inherently contained, and even when catastrophically failed, not a major concern. Many gen IV designs adhere to these sorts of principles. They're just inherently safe now. The only way you can fuck them up is by actually just becoming a problem.
Nuclear waste storage is still a problem, but greatly reduced with fast reactor designs. For numerous reasons i won't get into right now because this comment would be three pages long otherwise.
And besides, if you live near a coal plant you are actively consuming more harmful pollutants than if you were near a nuclear plant. Fun fact the japanese government evacuated people into areas WORSE than the initial areas they were in. This was due to gross negligence, but it was such a minor dosage, it basically didn't matter anyway.
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