2. Can go into dry casket storage, literally just some steel and concrete, where it sits in a little yards on site. I would agree, nuclear is not AS clean as real renewables, but in a comparison of A. Oil, Gas, Coal and B. Wind, Hydro, Solar it's emissions and pollution is closer to the latter. - ThreadSky

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2. Can go into dry casket storage, literally just some steel and concrete, where it sits in a little yards on site. I would agree, nuclear is not AS clean as real renewables, but in a comparison of A. Oil, Gas, Coal and B. Wind, Hydro, Solar it's emissions and pollution is closer to the latter.

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hk417a2.bsky.social•175 days ago

3. And within that group, it is 1. The only one that's location agnostic 2. Doesn't change in output over time, along with hydro, which is preferable, but extremely limited in locations 3. Resilient to natural disasters (again along with hydro) 4. Most importantly; the biggest example of

hk417a2.bsky.social•175 days ago

4. anti-nuclear policy, Germany exchanged zero emission, nuclear reactors against a Lot of coal powerplants, using brown coal, the type with the most CO² of all the fossil fuels. The mining of this coal incidentally uses way more area than storing the spent fuel would have in decades.

kantelestani.bsky.social•164 days ago

To claim nuclear reactors are "Zero emission" is to tell a lie.

hk417a2.bsky.social•164 days ago

What aspect of a nuclear reactor's operation emits greenhouse gasses?

hk417a2.bsky.social•175 days ago

5. The US, while not directly comparable, because they didn't make any real effort to go green with their energy production, also slowed the building of new nuclear reactors in favour of more oil powerplants. Therefore, anti-nuclear, even if presented from a environmentalist background, is always

hk417a2.bsky.social•175 days ago

6. Pro-fossil fuel.

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