Dealing with the used nuclear fuel is actually a seriously fucked up business. Uranium keeps being radioactive basically forever, and the process of storing it away safely for thousands of years (without it poisoning underground water tables or being susceptible to seismic activity) is hard and costly.CIANigger wrote: ↑Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:38 amI get that in the case of Nuclear materials they are difficult to store safely once used up, risk of meltdown, etc. However it produces so much energy for so little material! As far as I know there's no emissions fucking with the air, and all you're really doing is heating water to drive turbines. Can't get much cleaner than that shit.
Also, whenever a nuclear power plant goes SCRAM, expect shit to be contamined around it forever - specially if they need to release the contained coolant (usually water) in some way, spreading its radioactivity around.
They are efficient and relatively clean, but still, operating nuclear power plants is a fucked up business, and I can see why people would weight it against its cons and veto it, even if you completely disregard the "nuclear power plants are atomic bombs!" retards.