(03-11-2021, 02:19 AM)kruddler date Wrote:Nuclear is so far advanced anything else in terms of power output its ridiculous. It's all about the environment with nuclear power....but coal is probably worse for the environment. Call it a marketing exercise to change the thinking and be done with it already.Just an aside, many people in conventional power argue for coal as a safe alternative to nuclear, but the truth is emissions from coal power contain more radioactive isotopic waste than is ever emitted by a nuclear plant even if the nuclear plant fails. It's just that the coal radioactive emissions are trickled out over the lifetime of the facility, distributed evenly through thousands and thousands of cubic kilometres of emissions, in a way it may actually be more insidious!
Green energy initiatives can be even more harmful, relying on very dirty industries to create rare earth elements and engineering metals. It's just that because the processing is NIMBY, people ignore the damage it does and declare what they import as green! btw., Much of those green assessments are based on 25 year lifetimes, we are hearing much about that at the moment. My associate who inspects installations for solar and wind calls it the great green fraud!
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