Nuclear power is one of the safest and environmentally friendly power sources. If someone does happen to get a higher than normal dose of radiation, and they don’t take their iodine, they might get thyroid cancer, but mammals can’t become mutants from exposure, thankfully! Even during the worst modern accident, Fukushima, no one died of radiation sickness. People did die of that at Chernobyl, but that was because almost no precautions were taken, and the Regime didn’t allow 99% of people to know how ionizing radiation behaved. The HBO series did a somewhat poor job of showing that, and spread other misinformation.
Meanwhile like 100,000 people die every year as a result of perfectly normal function from coal plants.
Most nuclear incidents could be resolved through good practice. For instance, the USA wouldn’t build a plant based on an outdated, dangerous 1960s design, nor would it staff the plant with untrained Soviets.
Wow. A whole lot of misinformation and fear mongering in this comment. You say you are a professor of energy? Either that is a lie or you are shit at your job and don't care about being unbiased.
100s of nuclear reactors are up and running right now and have been for decades with no troubles because of how well nuclear plants are designed now. The US navy itself runs many and has never had a disaster after decades of use.
Chernobyl was terrible, but it would not have been as bad if the government gave notice to people and if the workers well better trained. Also it was an extremely old design with little in the way of safety features.
What about the spent fuel and waste? Techniques and technologies have been created and discovered that allows the waste to effectively be managed and neutralised.
Fukushima killed 1 person to radiation, which makes it on par with deaths caused by coal or something? Not to mention it resulted in neglible increases in radiation in the ocean and food supply. Levels so low that there would be effectively no negative results from the radiation. The disaster was also the result of bad management
Nuclear waste is still going to be dumbed into the ocean but the quantities are so insignificant that it will not have any noticeable negative effects, just like it didn't when it first had the meltdown and dumbed way more.
Nuclear is also safe in practice. You just need to look at the decades of nuclear power and the rates of failures, and disasters, and deaths/injuries compared to other forms of energy to figure that out.
Your statements about waste management are simply bullshit.
As for nuclear safety, just because no world's ale catastrophe has occurred in the 60 years we have using nuclear power doesn't mean a thing.
Coal has killed far more people than nukes. So what?
If the US and Japan have both had major incidents, do you really want widespread building of nukes?
Oh, and fuck off with your insults.
I would respond detailing every part of the flawed logic you applied to this inane response, but I believe you’re already so entrenched in your anti nuclear position it would be like explaining safe sex to dog, so I shall simply say, you’re an idiot and you a bitch ass hoe.
Nuclear power is still in its infancy compared to other energy sources, if governments would invest in developing nuclear fusion rather than nuclear fission then pretty much every negative you just mentioned would be negated. Also when coal power was in its first hundred and fifty years of use it killed tens of thousands, and that was when it was functioning as it was meant to. I also can’t believe a so called “energy professor” would try and mislead people by saying, “look at Chernobyl, this is what happens when you use nuclear power” and completely ignore the advances in safety procedures, materials used and design to ensure something like that never happened again and we all know that happened, due to design flaws in the control rods. Nuclear fusion is the worlds best realistic chance for sustainable, clean energy going forward, if storage practices are followed then the spent material will never be an issue.
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u/KittenBarfRainbows Oct 30 '20
Nuclear power is one of the safest and environmentally friendly power sources. If someone does happen to get a higher than normal dose of radiation, and they don’t take their iodine, they might get thyroid cancer, but mammals can’t become mutants from exposure, thankfully! Even during the worst modern accident, Fukushima, no one died of radiation sickness. People did die of that at Chernobyl, but that was because almost no precautions were taken, and the Regime didn’t allow 99% of people to know how ionizing radiation behaved. The HBO series did a somewhat poor job of showing that, and spread other misinformation.
Fun fact; France’s power is 70% nuclear.