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Originally Posted by Moontanman
Think of it this way, nuclear power is the absolute best way to generate electricity.
Nay sayers use statistics from old technology to further their rabid antiquated views on nuclear power.
There are so many people who have this idea of the nuclear genie killing us all or turning us all into radioactive monsters it is very difficult to to even make these people understand.
They grew up on a diet of b movies that portrayed nuclear power as the ultimate evil blamed for everything imaginable that was bad.
Staying with these outdated technologies is bad and should be avoided absolutely but to allow these b-movie ideas to drag down the only high intensity power source available to the human race is stupid and short sighted.
If you were to use the first jet airliner as a model to prevent any more jet airliners from being built and to make sure everyone rides trains instead of flying you would be in the same situation as the people are trying to beat down nuclear power.
Unfortunately these people also have decades of extremely scary and emotional propaganda both official and unofficial to help them achieve their goals. Most of them do not even realize what they are really doing. They have been told what they want to hear for so long the propaganda becomes self reinforcing.
Even old style nuclear power plants do not pollute any where near as bad as coal fired power plants. New technology is orders of magnitude better than old technology. I talked to literally hundreds of people who would rather live next to a coal fired power house than live with in a hundred miles of a nuclear power plant. It's just plan silly and it's also the reason so little private money is available for nuclear power plant building.
People are simply scared out of their wits by the prospect and the fear is totally irrational. I have already provided links to new types of nuclear power plants so I won't again but if we as a civilization want to move forward at anything other than a snails pace we will need nuclear power, safe modern nuclear power.
No small dribs and dabs of disconnected low intensity power sources that production of is farmed out to third world countries due to the inherent pollution released in their manufacture.
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Most of the time, the arguments are usually revolving around fear of nuclear weapons (completely preposterous as the uranium for weapons has to be much more enriched before it can be usable as such), or a Chernobyl-like disaster.
Overall though, less people have died from a nuclear power plant than most any other accident that takes place. And regardless, the use of nuclear power in general is on the rise everywhere else in the world.
Although, I'm still waiting for the fusion reactors to come online, then our energy problems will be solved forever.
