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by stmfreak 1415 days ago
Clean because no one has yet measured the ten thousand year containment costs and unintentional releases.

Clean because we have somehow written off the devastation of Chernobyl and Fukushima as trivial.

I don’t want a nuclear plant within 100 miles of my home because I have lived through three meltdowns and do not want to be displaced by a fourth.

But sure, in the moment nuclear emissions are super green.

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We gotta fill the gaps between intermittent output from renewables somehow. Would you rather fill those gaps with fossil fuels? Because that's the choice.