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Young climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stance
(www.theguardian.com)
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Uninhabitable by humans. Chernobyl created a nature preserve in an instant. The coal pollution you've inhaled has affected you more than all 3 of these nuclear disasters.
Coal emits more radioactive particles into the air than nuclear power plants
Right, but arguably more when they have catastrophic failures
Chernobyl is an acceptable outcome for you? Scary af
Chernobyl was a worst case scenario. It has affected millions of people and will have an unknown death toll due to the inability to measure it.
It's still less harmful than any non renewal able energy source.
Nuclear is a safe, intermediate bandaid while we find a long term solution.
This was true a decade ago but since then renewables have plummeted in price. Solar is 5x cheaper than it was a decade ago. Nuclear, meanwhile, has gone up in price by 50%.
A baseline power source is required, until battery tech catches up, or we build a fuckload of dams, something needs to fill the gap.
Right, and battery tech is going down in price and nuclear is going up. Which is the better investment?
Where are you going to get all the materials for global energy battery storage boss man?
We're not talking about storing a couple Kw here and there for each household, there is also industry energy requirements.
Once we start producing batteries for the kind of storage the price of lithium will skyrocket, and you're in the same, maybe even worse boat of nuclear.
Honestly your best bet is both, idk why you're so scared of nuclear. If one of these battery storage centres goes up in flames, the amount of toxins released would be disastrous for anyone nearby. And lithium doesn't really stop once the reaction starts.
There are other battery technologies in the works, which would be environmentally more sound, and be far far cheaper. But it's not ready yet.
3800 people a year die from coal plant pollution in the US alone; there are, in fact, much worse things than Chernobyl
Great reasons to not use coal either.
So then anything not as bad is A-OK?
More nuclear = less coal, that's the thrust of like half of the comments here dude
I mean, we are using less coal in the US than we were... and that's without more nuclear.