America is about to fall behind China on one of the most important issues of our time
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Nuclear apologists love defending this expensive, hazardous industry. In Texas, mining the uranium for these plants is ruining the water table just like fracking does.
Meanwhile solar, wind, and geothermal are cheaper and cleaner.
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In St. Louis, nuclear waste in a landfill has caused cancer in north county black and brown neighborhoods for decades.
It is generally those who have not witnessed the ramifications of nuclear waste and/or disaster that are its proponents. Something that takes tens of thousands of years to decay, considering climate change, climate change catastrophe, movements in human population, and geologic change, we are full of hubris to consider it a green power option. But all the know-it-all tech bro optimistica will vote me down. Idgaf.
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There is nothing wrong with trying to make this work, but a more accurate statement is that the US is failing to develop SMRs.
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Brother, after reading this thread, you're the one that's intentionally missing the point and failing to engage in good faith.
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Your opinion is noted? What do you want here?
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God please if there's one pissing match the Orange Terror gets into it better be nuclear energy.
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by building nuclear energy plants
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So that's a fusion reactor, not fission reactor like SMR. It's both way,way better and way further away from SMR.
I applaud all of them making headway, but none of them are anywhere near as useful as actual solar and actual batteries that are being deployed in mass now.
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They are very sorry and will try to get there soon. Just gang in there please.
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Who knew it was that simple
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if you want the United States to be more like this, you can always elect someone who- yeah you know what fuck it
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I could see Trump jumping on this if the right rich friend is invested in the right nuclear energy company. It feels like it's within the realm of possibility.
