>Alin Tanase, a climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace Romania
Tanase has several quotes opposing nuclear power.
I’d remind readers, for context, that Greenpeace explicitly has anti-nuclear advocacy as one of its core goals, and that Greenpeace’s co-founder (who left over this issue and some others) has heavily criticized them for doing this.
>In lumping opposition to nuclear arms to opposition to nuclear power, Moore thinks he launched Greenpeace in the wrong direction. Today he sees nuclear power as “comparatively benign, environmentally, and arguably more conducive to peace than oil bought from detestable regimes.”
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>He says he left Greenpeace when the organization came out against fish farms (with no environmental downside, he says) and when it called for a worldwide ban on chlorine as the “devil’s element” (Moore says 85 percent of medicines are manufactured with chlorine chemistry). He says Greenpeace was full of “former Soviet apologists” and, on nuclear power, focused on scaring people with “a religion based on belief rather than facts or evidence.”
-EU advises Romania to build a gas pipeline to Russia.
german greens seething
Germany: Atom is bad
Everybody else: Yea, No
Cool.Everybody, please exhaustively develop and test.So, in a mere few Decades, we may adopt them as well.
A shame the article doesn’t get into _why_ they are cheaper than conventional nuclear: the fact that they are manufactured and not constructed.
Nuclear reactor in the Balkans, very bad idea. They have a war every 100 years or so.
Oh wow, Greenpiss protesting, in other news the sky is blue.
Also, at one point every reactor design had a first of it’s kind, so this kind of scarmongering is also so typical of them.
What kind of waste do they produce?
I want one in the livingroom.
I will not change for rent, just give cheap electicity, water and heating to me and all neighbors.
Mmmm. Cheap heating.
I might start to wax the carrot just for that alone.
Uh oh, here comes France removing their ambassador from Romania
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Romania could become the first country in Europe that deploys small modular reactors (SMRs). France is making plans as well. FYI China’s climate goals include [at least 150 new reactors](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-climate-goals-hinge-on-440-billion-nuclear-power-plan-to-rival-u-s) in the next fifteen years.
Does the EU approve nuclear reactors?
I wouldn’t be too worried as NuScale have got [ASME](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191206005032/en/NuScale-Receives-Highly-Regarded-N-Certificate-of-Authorization-from-American-Society-of-Mechanical-Engineers) N cert.
>Alin Tanase, a climate and energy campaigner at Greenpeace Romania
Tanase has several quotes opposing nuclear power.
I’d remind readers, for context, that Greenpeace explicitly has anti-nuclear advocacy as one of its core goals, and that Greenpeace’s co-founder (who left over this issue and some others) has heavily criticized them for doing this.
https://nonprofitquarterly.org/former-greenpeace-founder-supports-nuclear-power/
>In lumping opposition to nuclear arms to opposition to nuclear power, Moore thinks he launched Greenpeace in the wrong direction. Today he sees nuclear power as “comparatively benign, environmentally, and arguably more conducive to peace than oil bought from detestable regimes.”
–
>He says he left Greenpeace when the organization came out against fish farms (with no environmental downside, he says) and when it called for a worldwide ban on chlorine as the “devil’s element” (Moore says 85 percent of medicines are manufactured with chlorine chemistry). He says Greenpeace was full of “former Soviet apologists” and, on nuclear power, focused on scaring people with “a religion based on belief rather than facts or evidence.”
-EU advises Romania to build a gas pipeline to Russia.
german greens seething
Germany: Atom is bad
Everybody else: Yea, No
Cool.Everybody, please exhaustively develop and test.So, in a mere few Decades, we may adopt them as well.
A shame the article doesn’t get into _why_ they are cheaper than conventional nuclear: the fact that they are manufactured and not constructed.
Nuclear reactor in the Balkans, very bad idea. They have a war every 100 years or so.
Oh wow, Greenpiss protesting, in other news the sky is blue.
Also, at one point every reactor design had a first of it’s kind, so this kind of scarmongering is also so typical of them.
What kind of waste do they produce?
I want one in the livingroom.
I will not change for rent, just give cheap electicity, water and heating to me and all neighbors.
Mmmm. Cheap heating.
I might start to wax the carrot just for that alone.
Uh oh, here comes France removing their ambassador from Romania