“The potential contribution of nuclear power to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is as clear as its non-sustainable nature due to severe safety risks, environmental pollution, huge time investment and the unsolved waste problem.”
And that’s how you know the article is unresearched bullshit and clickbaiting. The waste problem is extremely solvable, example: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/default/files/visit_to_covra.pdf
And the safety risks are over exaggerated bullshit. Fukushima killed two people and that is the second worst disaster ever. Yearly thousands of people die as direct result of burning coals, but I guess that’s not flashy and therefore uninteresting.
Nuclear has the power to safe us from climate change, today. No other energy source can boast that and the suggestion that labeling nuclear as sustainable will do the EU harm is just laughable.
While the Gas and Intermitent of the West looks promissing?
And yet neither solar or wind energy has the capacity or stability to stand alone.
Nuclear is costly mostly because we lost most of the expertise that had been built in the 60s and 70s.
But generation IV reactors doesn’t really have a lot of the issues mentioned. They’re safe, they can burn spent fuel from older reactor designs and they’re not dependent on uranium.
This coming from the director of the EU policy of the European Environmental Bureau 🤦♂️
With such people climate change will only be going to the worse (for humans).
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“The potential contribution of nuclear power to reducing greenhouse gas emissions is as clear as its non-sustainable nature due to severe safety risks, environmental pollution, huge time investment and the unsolved waste problem.”
And that’s how you know the article is unresearched bullshit and clickbaiting. The waste problem is extremely solvable, example: https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/sites/default/files/visit_to_covra.pdf
And the safety risks are over exaggerated bullshit. Fukushima killed two people and that is the second worst disaster ever. Yearly thousands of people die as direct result of burning coals, but I guess that’s not flashy and therefore uninteresting.
Nuclear has the power to safe us from climate change, today. No other energy source can boast that and the suggestion that labeling nuclear as sustainable will do the EU harm is just laughable.
While the Gas and Intermitent of the West looks promissing?
And yet neither solar or wind energy has the capacity or stability to stand alone.
Nuclear is costly mostly because we lost most of the expertise that had been built in the 60s and 70s.
But generation IV reactors doesn’t really have a lot of the issues mentioned. They’re safe, they can burn spent fuel from older reactor designs and they’re not dependent on uranium.
This coming from the director of the EU policy of the European Environmental Bureau 🤦♂️
With such people climate change will only be going to the worse (for humans).