| Your stories notwithstanding, every renewable deployment in history has failed to reach zero carbon. > The question isn't "is a disaster possible?" but "when, and of which magnitude?". Yeah. And solar out-kills nuclear by a factor of nearly 20. Your problem is that you're trying to consider nuclear in isolation, with no null hypothesis. Every single replacement causes more death and more radioactive waste, no exceptions, even when you fold in the worst nuclear disasters in history. . > Fukushima is by many criteria a "lucky" case This is an absurd and incorrect viewpoint. Please do not hold yourself forwards as knowledgeable in these matters. The Fukushima design was well known to be flawed, and the United States had been suing Japan to shut it down for ten years before this happened. The seawall did not meet Japan's national standards. You might as well call Union Carbide lucky. Go be an apologist on someone else's time. |
No energy production mean reached zero carbon. Nuclear is far from this goal and cannot attain it on any financially realistic way.
Even France, which produces most of its electricity using nuclear reactors since the 90's, couldn't. Proof (red surfaces represent fossil fuels used for electricity production in France): https://www.statistiques.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/editi...
In France the 'nuclear success story' led to a state law (2015-992, from 2015, the "loi relative à la transition énergétique pour la croissance verte") stating that the part of nuke-produced electricity must fall to less than 50% in 2025, from 72% then, and that renewable sources must replace it.
The fraction of consumed energy produced by renewables is booming, even in good old Europe. Proof: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ind_ured/...
Overall there is a working and more and more adopted way to build future energy systems... and another one...: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/nuclear-renewables-electr...
> solar out-kills nuclear
This is false, as any serious meta-study shows: https://ourworldindata.org/safest-sources-of-energy
Moreover those victims are past ones, and a new major nuclear disaster may cause many victims while solar-panels induced major disasters aren't even possible.