Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
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Now that it's part of the discussion again it won't be long before some dick brings up Thorium. Today, it is my honour to be that dick.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium-based_nuclear_power
Thorium cannot be made into a nuclear weapon (certainly not a good one), a meltdown of Thorium in well designed reactor would end up shielding itself, while not an energy dense as uranium, it's still very good, Thorium mines already exist in Western countries and could he ramped up easily.
These types of predictable comments don't normally have to wait long before some insufferable ass pipes up with a comment about how China has had an experimental thorium reactor running for over a year, and recently accomplished the important technical step of refuelling it without shutting it down. This makes China the current world leaders in Thorium reactor technology.
Time to invest in the most cost effective, safest and greenest of energies! Solar and wind.
And stop the import of Russian and US gas
Nothing is greener than the beautiful glow that contaminants landscapes for over thousands of years.... /s
A great example of argument from panic that's not based in reality. It's a very popular method of discussion these days. The article describes just that :-)
Not based in reality? We in Germany still don't have a solution to safely store nuclear waste.
Exactly! Germany even defunded research of the technology. Of course you're stuck in the 90s if you stopped learning and progressing then.
It's like argueing in favour of the fax-machine, because your dial-up internet at home is too slow to load a pdf file. Ban that pesky, unnatural internet!
To update your understanding of the technology, you can start here: https://www.weplanet.org/whatawaste
It's not like it's rocket science 🙄