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Sorry, I know there are various perspectives on how "clean" nuclear power is, but those two just don't rhyme in my mind. Especially not to the tune of "let's extract uranium from sea water".
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2026
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The reason it's clean is because in case of failure it will clean out the human population on a larger scale, thus saving the planet.
lol
Not that I disagree with OP's point, hasn't fossil fuels working as intended "cleaned up" more of the human population than all the nuclear powerplant failures?
The right time for nuclear power was decades ago, which could have offset our current carbon issues by a lot, but alas. Now is the time for solar+wind+batteries, it's already cheaper in most places and a lot less dangerous if something goes wrong.
Agreed, I just wanted to preempt any "well akshually, nuclear power is perfectly clean" discussions.
The "if something goes wrong" is certainly part of my reservations. There's been more than one example of that happening in my lifetime, and one was too many.
Another concern is that we have no better idea to dispose of the nuclear waste than burying it really deep. That sounds like a good recipe to have it come back and bite future generations in the ass.
So yeah, clean and sustainable would mean solar/hydro/wind energy in my mind.
Don't let the nuclear cult hear such blasphemic facts.
~~cult~~ investors
There, fixed that for you 🙂