• Megumin@lemmy.world
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      6 days ago

      Thank you for the link, fuck OP and the originator of the tweet for trying to spin this as a bad thing. America needs more nuclear power plants and this seems like a wonderful way to reuse nuclear waste.

      • JoshCodes@programming.dev
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        Solar is cheaper, requires a sponge and detergent for maintenance, and has an approximately zero percent chance of blowing everything around it into a radioactive hell. You build it and it sits in a field. Far less susceptible to incompetence or systemic failure.

        It also takes like a decade to build a nuclear plant. Over a decade you could produce shit loads of energy off solar. Wind too if you want to go crazy but y’all would see one ai gen video of a bald eagle getting killed by a turbine and call them communist or something.

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          Ignoring how utterly disingenuous you are being about maintenance for solar, this is always such a stupid stance against nuclear. Solar is cheaper cause we spent decades bringing the costs down. Plants only take decades in shithole countries like America because the amount of NIMBY nonsense that takes place.

          France is roughly two thirds nuclear disasters. They’re still actively building them. And how many nuclear disasters have you heard about from them?

          Also reactors don’t blow everything to radioactive hell. You’re being an idiot.