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by s0me0ne 3304 days ago
If you believe in nuclear power so much, please keep the nuclear waste in your state where it's created instead of sending it elsewhere
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I'm fine with that as long as people opposing nuclear power keep the radioactive ashes from coal powerplants needed to replace the nuclear baseload in their states. As well as all the other toxic wastes. Not mentioning the side-effects, including global warming, starvation, migrations, and wars caused by that.

Instead so far they seem to push the externalities to others by either using coal and spewing it all into air, or not using coal, but buying balancing power from elsewhere, where they do use nuclear power or coal power :).

I think we can agree both of these alternatives are morally dishonest.

If you believe in "green" power so much, start using it for everything in your daily life.

Also, stop importing energy from other states, while essentially banning energy development in your own (cough... Calfornia).

Over having a coal plant spew out shit all day long? Gladly. Too bad everyone else is being irrationally NIMBY like yourself.