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What are your thoughts on nuclear energy? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Namely, do you think it has a future in the wave of next gen clean energy sources? If you support it, do you think it will always be viable or that it should only be a temporary measure to get us off fossil fuels while our renewable infrastructure grows?

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[–] SnowC0de@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 years ago (2 children)

I spent a lot of time discussing with French people in YouTube comments. And I need to say that a lot of beliefs of nuclear energy are wrong.

France got a very good re-processing of nuclear wastes
Nuclear energy is the energy with the smallest mortality rate compared to any other energy. The worst being coal with 2 deaths per removedt
Nuclear energy is still pretty clean on a pollution side.

I don't like this energy but trying to throw it away, without reducing the demand, sounds impossible to me.

Something I really regret about nuclear energy though is the fact that you are completely dependent on other countries and industries.

So another belief (on the side of pro-nuclear this time) is the fact that it makes you independent of your own electricity. Except that all your uranium is coming from another countries, this is not what I call "independent".

TL;DR: I don't like centralization of the electricity production. But with the current demand, it's the only viable choice.

[–] Scholar_Succulent@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Could you alborate on your first claim ?

France got a very good re-processing of nuclear wastes

[–] SnowC0de@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 years ago

They seem very advanced in the control of nuclear waste and know how to reprocess a good part of them. Everything is contained securely and they don't seem to have any space problem with it. It's the "ANDRA" (National Agency for the Management of Radioactive Waste) who do all of that.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

I'm still on the fence about nuclear, and centralized vs decentralized energy production (bc decentralized relies on batteries where the materials are mined under terrible conditions, not to mention the batteries themselves are terrible for the environment) . I wonder if anyone's done a comparison of nuclear vs solar, in terms of waste byproducts and mining ethics, bc I bet its probably closer or even possibly more in favor of nuclear than many think.

[–] SnowC0de@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 years ago

Yes there are people who made that comparison. Solar is much worse than nuclear energy.