Namely, do you think it has a future in the wave of next gen clean energy sources? If you support it, do you think it will always be viable or that it should only be a temporary measure to get us off fossil fuels while our renewable infrastructure grows?
I think that nuclear energy is actually a decent temporary solution for countries until they can transition to other energy sources of energy that are much safer and with fewer negative consequences. However, there needs to be regulation and control throughout the whole process, private companies of course shouldn’t be allowed to run them, governments should buy the absolute best available equipment possibly at a monetary loss to themselves. Plus investing into figuring out a nuclear waste disposal solution.
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I think we have to use all available options at this point. We have around a decade left to avert the most horrific effects of global warming, and nuclear power is a proven technology that’s available to us today. I see fission being phased out eventually in favor of renewables and fusion.
I would rather link PhD student on physics for this topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k13jZ9qHJ5U
I love nuclear energy. It is will be viable far longer than oil or other non-renewables.
I would recommend anyone who hasn’t seen it to watch Pandora’s Promise!
I spent a lot of time discussing with French people in YouTube comments. And I need to say that a lot of beliefs of nuclear energy are wrong.
- France got a very good re-processing of nuclear wastes
- Nuclear energy is the energy with the smallest mortality rate compared to any other energy. The worst being coal with 2 deaths per removedt
- Nuclear energy is still pretty clean on a pollution side.
I don’t like this energy but trying to throw it away, without reducing the demand, sounds impossible to me.
Something I really regret about nuclear energy though is the fact that you are completely dependent on other countries and industries.
So another belief (on the side of pro-nuclear this time) is the fact that it makes you independent of your own electricity. Except that all your uranium is coming from another countries, this is not what I call “independent”.
TL;DR: I don’t like centralization of the electricity production. But with the current demand, it’s the only viable choice.
I’m still on the fence about nuclear, and centralized vs decentralized energy production (bc decentralized relies on batteries where the materials are mined under terrible conditions, not to mention the batteries themselves are terrible for the environment) . I wonder if anyone’s done a comparison of nuclear vs solar, in terms of waste byproducts and mining ethics, bc I bet its probably closer or even possibly more in favor of nuclear than many think.
Yes there are people who made that comparison. Solar is much worse than nuclear energy.
could you link the research pls?
This is the french video summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEy-DqEaJJU This is the sources of the video : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YO_dE0y22B2UaYV1U1Ir2Uv-e0v_ETtHfxzXTKv_dvU/edit
Until we figure out the storage problem in order to get solar working, nuclear is the only realistic way of replacing coal which has much more negative consequences. I don’t like it, but as it stands it is the lesser of two evils.
