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  • Soggy@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Neither storage “solution” is currently adequate for fossil fuel replacement and may never be for high-density populations. Nuclear is less impactful than burning hydrocarbons or damming rivers and fearmongering about radioactive waste products isn’t helpful because, again, every nuclear accident or leak to date has been less harmful than normal exhaust from coal-burning plants and riparian habitat destruction.

    If we had kept investing in an actual energy solution we would have gen-IV reactors already and the waste concerns would be even lower.