silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 months agoIs nuclear power a fix for climate change? Experts think it's too dangerouswww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up140arrow-down123
arrow-up117arrow-down1external-linkIs nuclear power a fix for climate change? Experts think it's too dangerouswww.salon.comsilence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square34fedilink
minus-squareHelixDab2@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoWhile that’s true, the counter arguments are Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl. The risk with nuclear is that we trade one problem–climate change caused by CO2 emissions–for another significant problem down the road. At the same time, climate change is here now, and we need to act or else there isn’t going to be anything we need to worry about in a century.
While that’s true, the counter arguments are Fukushima, Three Mile Island, and Chernobyl.
The risk with nuclear is that we trade one problem–climate change caused by CO2 emissions–for another significant problem down the road.
At the same time, climate change is here now, and we need to act or else there isn’t going to be anything we need to worry about in a century.