Only an idiot wouldn’t persue it when it is one of the safest, most reliable, and least polluting (including renewables) options. Radioactive waste is minimal, and modern reactor designs can reprocess it. It is easy to contain, though we do need a solution for long term storage that doesn’t really exist yet, but that’s basically just some location to bury it. There is enough material to last us for the foreseeable future while we develop other sources to be able to rely on 100% of the time.
Relatively few accidents have involved fatalities, with roughly 74 casualties being attributed to accidents and half of these were those involved in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.[6]
Compare that to estimated 7 million killed every year by pollution from burning fossil fuels.
Only an idiot wouldn’t persue it when it is one of the safest, most reliable, and least polluting (including renewables) options. Radioactive waste is minimal, and modern reactor designs can reprocess it. It is easy to contain, though we do need a solution for long term storage that doesn’t really exist yet, but that’s basically just some location to bury it. There is enough material to last us for the foreseeable future while we develop other sources to be able to rely on 100% of the time.
It’s not the safest by any margin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country
It’s not the most reliable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Crisis_since_late_2021
It’s not the least polluting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_'Ndrangheta
There are enough alternatives to ditch nuclear already and rely on better sources
From that link…
Compare that to estimated 7 million killed every year by pollution from burning fossil fuels.
https://ourworldindata.org/data-review-air-pollution-deaths
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You really trust UNSCEAR ? 😆
How many people died in Somalia due to nuclear waste?
None confirmed from any of the reports I could find, but feel free to post credible evidence otherwise.
None confirmed and yet the waste is there dumped in the wild, do the math