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Anon questions our energy sector (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

TBF a nuclear incident is not like burning just one house down. It’s burning down the whole city and making it unusable for a decade or ten.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why not build it in a remote location then?

Dams can also produce a lot of hydroelectric power, and a catastrophic failure could also destroy an entire town or more. We just don't build dams upstream of a large town.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

The Chernobyl reactor's explosion had impacts all the way in West Europe.

I don't think you can be remote enough with this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

While 100% true for nuclear, the current state of burning fossil fuels is much MUCH worse.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes. Over the long term it will render the planet uninhabitable, or at least close enough to it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Some experts would argue it's already starting to be uninhabitable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think a town burning down would be fatal for most the inhabitants 3000 BC

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yes, maybe… but the point being they could, and often did, rebuild right where they’d been before. Radiation prevents that.