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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
It's trendy for sure. But remember the Fukushima disaster in 2011 - a single earthquake and resulting tsunami could destroy the plant, AND risk a nuclear explosion, and radioactivity resulting in massive deaths and disease in anyone within a few miles of the fallout. That basically puts the entire west coast out of the running for placement.
As for the east coast, whose back yard do you want to bury the waste in? Because - where there is nuclear energy, there is nuclear waste. And it has to be put somewhere.
Maybe somewhere in the Sahara desert - but that'd be pointless, since a power plant has to be in a reasonable distance to the homes and businesses it's powering.
So these are the reasons why it's not a popular option. I personally think nuclear energy could be amazing. But those particular risk make it a NIMBY option for me.
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This is all false, anti-nuclear propaganda pushed by environmentalists.
Read “Apocalypse Never” by Michael Shellenberger for better info. Zion Lights on Twitter, another former environmentalists turned pro-nulcear, is also a good resource.
Germany is in the process of shutting down its 17 nuclear plants; the IPCC is predicting 1100 more deaths per year from Germany returning to fossil fuels.
Maybe these predicted blackouts will be sufficiently painful to get our politicians and government moving to build more Fourth Gen nuclear plants.