Care to name some /pol/, genuinely interested
Pro: tons of reliably steady energy
Zero emissions of carbon dioxide
Con: Some bad things happened in Ukraine and Japan, plus numerous other minor incidents
Sorta expensive to set up
>>71462826
I came here to say this.
Its the best source of energy, only flaws are if its shittily maintained or put in the pacific it will break.
Another con is that they make a a nice relatively soft terrorism target. This is just me playing devils advocate though, if the tree huggers stopped bitching about nuclear energy and let us build some more plants we could make our energy challenges must less challenging and even help out the environment IMO. Solar and wind are dead ends with technology we have now and for the immediate future.
>>71462514
>Pros:
Codsworth
>Cons:
???
Im pro-nuclear power, but where is a proper place to store the waste? I've thought about sending it into space, but what if we have another challenger incident but this time it showers nuclear waste across the planet. With the population of the world growing, i image we will run out of places to store it soon.
>>71463207
Being a terrorist is illegal, so I don't see that being a problem.
>>71463315
>With the population of the world growing
nuclear can also solve that
>>71462514
>Fries
Dey look like oven chips dem mate, crinkle cut oven chips
>>71463320
Yeah, cause no one can get drugs since they're illegal
>i just replied to bait
>>71462826
Basically this.
+ gotta add alll that nuclear waste. Half-life of like 20-something million years or whatnot.
>>71463315
There was Yuca Mountain.
>>71463523
There's really not that much waste. The waste can be broken down into energy further but it requires a whole new reactor which we can make but it isn't worth it because there isn't enough waste yet for it to make a profit
>>71462514
75% of all power in France comes from nuclear plants. Sure it's cheap... But we are not canada, the usa or russia, we have people everywhere, we can't run the risk of having 1/4th of the country uninhabitable
>>71464074
It is a shame they shut it down. I just wonder if these storage sites could degrade before the waste has become safe.... I imagine the planet could change a lot in the millions of years before it degrades into inert material
>muh LFTR.
>>71464931
we dont have the technology for thorium yet
>>71463315
>Im pro-nuclear power, but where is a proper place to store the waste?
As you correctly identified you can't just transport the stuff into space safely because of the rates of accidents that would make it so dangerous at that height.
The much bigger problem is that you don't want to throw this so called nuclear waste away as it can be reprocessed and used again. This idea of stashing it away is an absolute idiotic attempt. It's like throwing away all the byproducts you get from refining oil instead of using them.
>>71464931
I would rather my tax dollars go to this then be wasted on free college for people to learn about their feelings
Man I want some fries...If I hadnt gone low sodium a few months back Id go get some right now.
>>71465790
What about your tax dollars going to people to learn about Thorium reactors?
>>71465241
the first molten salt reactor was build in 1954, what exactly are we missing to get one to function again with Thorium and Fluoride?
>>71462514
Ahem:
Fukushima was the result of a poorly designed facility along with a freak tsunami from an earthquake, leading to a complete overwhelm of the cooling system resulting in a reactor meltdown. Avoidable and people brought the issue up well before it happened.
Chernobyl was a bunch of people going "Fuck design limitations and safeties, FULL STEAM AHEAD!" and forgetting physics 101, resulting in them blowing up the reactor.
Three Mile Island was a bunch of people ignoring warnings and normal protocol.
Nuclear power is completely safe, you just need to not be an idiot when using it. No, we will not get three eyed fish from disposing of the waste, most of it's old boots and hats, and the things that aren't are under military guard in extremely thick lead and concrete casks deep underground.
>>71466129
We have the tech for thorium with a salt core that prevents meltdowns. Thorium also has a lot shorter half life so you don't need as long term of storage. It just needs more money for setup and to start development.
>>71466405
>you just need to not be an idiot when using it
who's going to keep human error in check
