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I think it's fine if Microsoft has their own nuclear power plant as long as every Microsoft corporate officer is required to live downwind of it. ✌🏻
What?
Coal plants are the ones that produce radioactive smog. Nuclear plants just put off steam. The radioactive material doesn't come into contact with the clean water loop that is used to spin the turbine and generate power unless something is catastrophically wrong.
The dangerous byproduct, spent fuel rods, are stored in pools buried deep, and radioactivity is drastically abetted by the spent rods being submerged in water.
Seriously, you anti nuclear people are like anti vaxxers. It's very minimal reading to learn how this shit works so that you can have valid critique, but no, that's too tough.
And as you called “anti-nuclear people” “anti-vaxxers” I might add that those small nuclear reactors are such a tech bro bullshit.
I can just repeat myself while al of your mentioned facts are facts (although I do not know of any storage anywhere which is save for thousands of years). Of course Nuclear is infinitely better than fossils. The most important thing most people do not talk about however is price per kWh. And if you were to read up on that you would see that Nuclear is pretty bad. Just investing the money in renewables (which Nuclear also is not) gives way more value.
Um... you realize that nuclear doesn't give of any pollutants?
It does emit heat. If using a flowing water source like a river for cooling, it does raise the temperature of the water a measurable amount, which must be accounted for in an environmental impact analysis.
But that's still leagues better than burning fossil fuels.
Agree
Three mile island certainly gave off pollution. Scientists are studying if people downwind of it ended up getting thyroid cancer as a result.
https://whyy.org/articles/thyroid-cancer-study-re-ignites-debate-over-three-mile-island-accidents-health-effects/
Microsoft already works on nuclear stewardship + the NIF, how much worse could it possibly be?