#NuclearEnergyDebate #RenewableVsNonrenewable #SustainableEnergyFuture #CleanEnergyChoices #EnergySustainability
🌍 Embracing nuclear energy as a power source has been a topic of heated discussion for decades. Let’s dive into the various perspectives and implications of using nuclear energy to generate power.
Benefits of Nuclear Energy:
1. **Clean Energy**: Nuclear power does not produce greenhouse gas emissions, making it a low-carbon energy source.
2. **Reliable Power**: Nuclear plants can operate consistently and provide a stable supply of energy.
3. **Energy Independence**: Less reliance on fossil fuels and a move towards self-sufficiency in energy production.
4. **Decarbonization**: Nuclear power can play a role in reducing carbon emissions and combating climate change.
Concerns Surrounding Nuclear Energy:
1. **Safety Risks**: Accidents like Chernobyl and Fukushima have highlighted the potential dangers of nuclear power.
2. **Waste Disposal**: Dealing with radioactive waste and ensuring its safe disposal is a major challenge.
3. **High Costs**: Building and maintaining nuclear power plants require significant investment.
4. **Nuclear Proliferation**: The spread of nuclear technology raises concerns about security and global conflict.
Public Opinion and Government Policies:
1. **Mixed Feelings**: Public perception of nuclear energy varies, with some supporting it for its environmental benefits and others opposing it due to safety concerns.
2. **Policy Implications**: Governments worldwide are faced with decisions on whether to invest in nuclear energy or prioritize other renewable sources like solar and wind power.
Personal Perspective:
Personally, I believe that a balanced energy mix is crucial for a sustainable future. While nuclear energy can offer clean power, the potential risks and costs cannot be ignored. It is essential to prioritize safety, environmental impact, and long-term sustainability when considering nuclear energy as a power source.
In conclusion, the debate on nuclear energy is multifaceted, with valid arguments on both sides. As we navigate the transition towards a more sustainable energy landscape, it is essential to weigh the benefits and challenges of nuclear power carefully. What are your thoughts on using nuclear energy as a power source? Let’s continue the conversation! 💡🌿🔋
New reactors are best and cleanest source of energy we have.
Idk enough about it to have an opinion
That’s my opinion
I feel it is ridiculous that the people who are so obsessed with green energy never promote the cleanest and most efficient source of fuel we’ve ever known.
Cleaner than fossil fuels. Bring it.
There are nuances in terms of cost effectiveness, and there are legitimate concerns about the effects of mining and storage, but overall, it’s good, and pseudo-environmentalists patting themselves on the back as nuclear gets shut down and replaced by coal or natural gas really disturb me. It is especially good because it’s a non-fossil fuel way to generate continuous, steady energy, rather than the more sporadic (but still good!) wind or solar.
It’s the absolute best choice for energy. People are afraid of what they don’t understand and that’s unfortunate for nuclear power.
It’s a sciencey way of boiling water, and safer and less impactful then people think. Just expensive
It is much better for the planet than burning fossil fuels and is more dependable than wind or solar.
Yes. Disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima have unjustly destroyed nuclear’s reputation. It’s the closest thing that we have to completely sustainable zero emissions energy.
Safest form of energy, about 200 or so people died in chernobyl and that’s about it.
I mean coal mines kill over 100,000 people a year
Plus it’s space efficient considering about:
This a little further down the page³ is enough to power a city or 2 for a year which is really good considering how inefficient solar and wind feel compared to the raw power of U-235
Don’t ya love boiling water? Just give em funding and you have more space for things instead of wind farms and solar farms
I live within an hour of 2 plants, they provide good jobs and cheap power for us. I approve.
The new style reactors are so efficient they can even reuse fuel deemed spent by older plants.
It’s the cleanest energy that’s on the scale we need. The waste/power generated is unmatched
Love it.
3rd gen, and as of this year, 4th gen power has a perfect track records of gigwatts of power produced with a perfect safety record.
Breeder reactors make seawater extraction and deep core mining economically possible, therefore we have enough fissile materials to last millions of years.
New fission is expensive, but we could literally solve golbal warming in ten years. Think of it as spending the money to save the planet with the free energy as a pleasant side affect.
The waste issue is exaggerated a thousand times beyond the actual problems, most of which have current known solutions.
Should have done it decades ago. Ecofreaks blocking development of nuclear power are as much to blame for climate change as anyone else and damned few of them have admitted they were wrong.
Insert Simpsons jokes here:
I really, really want to get onboard. I know that I’m in the minority, but I can’t get over my mild apprehensions about them.
So, yes, they are incredibly safe. But just like anything, they could fail catastrophically. If they do, they create an exclusion zone of hundreds of square miles.
Nothing else, no other source of power known to man, creates an exclusion zone where humans cannot safely live if it fails. Not a coal mine, or a gas power plant, even a dam collapsing could be remedied.
I guess you could say, “it’s a one in 10 million chance something goes wrong” but I’m just like “…do we want to take a one-in-10-million shot at turning part of the California coast radioactive?”
In Germany they switched them off for ideological reasons, after the Ukraine war started they had to burn lignite instead which is probably the dirtiest of all fuels
Please do. The whole world could be solar, nuclear, and hydro.
The nuclear reactors wouldn’t even be done before I was retired and I’m still all for it.
Why are people against them, beyond me
It needs to be used everywhere. Cleanest and most powerful form of energy. We’re stupid for limiting it
All the scare about nuclear energy is based on a combination of extremely outdated info, like 50 year old outdated info, and propaganda/lobbying from coal/oil companies. Nuclear energy is extremely efficient and very safe.
Better than coal or gas.
I have no issue with nuclear power.
I have issue with companies and governments fucking it up.
Idk why we bother like my ass doesn’t give the same amount of power to fuel entire continents
Only downside is how frikkin expensive it is to build them up. Everything after that is just positives from what I’m aware.
Far Safer than coal and fossil fuels, bring it on in a good mix with renewable energy
There’s no other way to be somehow environmentally friendly.
Nuclear fusion from the sun is the one we benefit the most every day. We need to make it work at our scale.
Can’t happen soon enough
I’m sure everyone saying how safe it is would be more than happy to store a couple barrels of waste on their property. I live in a state that receives waste from all over the country, and stores the waste right above one of the largest fresh water aquifers in the region. What could possibly go wrong?
You mean how do I feel about the cleanest and safest form of energy. Great… people hear the word nuclear and just have no grasp of what it actually means
Best way of doing it right now. People are concerned about safety, but that’s been an issue every time the human race has innovated on energy. Fire upon its growth as a power source probably burned down lots of villages. Coal caused sickness and such. Crude oil is terrible for the environment, and so on.
these are the average deaths per terrawatt-hour of electricity, including accidents and air pollution, but excluding the effects of climate change, in decending order:
brown coal: 32.72
coal: 24.62
Oil: 18.43
Biomass: 4.63
Gas: 2.82
Hydropower: 1.3
Wind: 0.04
Nuclear: 0.03
Solar: 0.02
now why exactly should we *not* use nuclear?
Source: Jonny Harris’ Video on Nuclear Power
Kurzgesagt made a Video on it too, with similar statistics, using the WHO as the primary source
With new Gen 4 reactors, we really should be using a lot more of it.
The amount of green energy we need to decarbonize by electrification is staggering. The argument is change every aspect of modern life though energy throttling, including poor and developing nations who will get fucked up by that, or nuclear. We literally can’t build solar fast enough. It’s not possible in most political climates and its not feasible in almost all.
It’s fantastic, unfortunately people are extremely scared of nuclear anything. Hell even I’m worried because accidents happen and terrorists exist. But with the proper oversight I’m all forit
It’s cleaner and safer than the other options, so we should be using a lot more of it. The climate scientists also say we need to double the amount of nuclear we currently have to solve climate change in time.
I worry that we’re not mature enough to use them.
I know that they should be the answer to get us off fossil fuels.
But I don’t trust the people that oversee them. Time and time again we see critical safety issues ignored for profits in most industries.
East Palestine (Ohio) and the derailment there was one example, but every year there is some other ecological event that is simply short term profits over the long term well being of people.
Many US utility company’s are becoming privatized, increasing the odds of cutting corners. The thing with nuclear power is, it just has to go wrong… Once.
The start to the Russia vs UK war did not help this impression, when Russian tanks let off a few shells at Chernobyl.
I’d rather we commit to solar / wind and HOLD COMPANY’S ACCOUNTABLE WHEN THEY F*#K OVER THE ENVIRONMENT.
I feel great about it! Then again, I’m a nuclear engineer so maybe I’m biased? But to be fair I got into nuclear because I wanted to hel make more reactors, and better.
On the cost and stagnation issues, no one described the problem better than [John H. Crowley in 1985.](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31210012721534&seq=175)
the best fucking thing we got.
I feel excellent. That is because I haven’t fallen for fearmongering of high-school dropouts and kids of rich daddies with political ambitions.
I live in France. I do use nuclear. It’s the most efficient for how clean it is and the best source of energy we have at the moment. The whole world should be using it while working on renewables etc. any propaganda you hear about waste etc is actually tiny compared to fossil fuels. The risks are lower than people are told too
One of the better options currently. Germany went and did something stupid in the name of green energy. Closed down their nuclear power plants and build plants to start burning brown coal instead. Great idea….
incredibly fucking frustrated that we’re killing eight million people a year with fossil fuels, and fucking up the planet, instead of having already switched to far cleaner, safer nuclear that would solve all our problems.
As a Australian, I don’t understand why Australia does not have Nuclear Plants already.