• kablez@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Public trust in governments and the private sector is at an all time low, all around the world. And that’s an earned reputation.

    Nuclear energy is a promising solution, but there are risks associated with it that cannot be ignored.

    Can you trust a government that can’t even feed it’s poor and house them to properly dispose of all nuclear waste used at scale? I doubt it. Even if it’s done right for a while, that handling will erode because everything in our system does. That’s the problem.

    The question isn’t just efficacy of the technology. It’s implementation. Execution. Maintenance. Long term sustainability.

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      23 hours ago

      Thorium Salt Reactors eat waste uranium and are capable of creating more uranium form thorium for legacy reactors in a continuous cycle.

      implementation. Execution. Maintenance. Long term sustainability.

      Fossil Fuel fired power plants?

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        21 hours ago

        I’m ok with Thorium Salt reactors. I believe it was Taylor Wilson who suggested they could even use recycled nuclear missile payloads for this system.

        Sustainability is relative. It might seem OK for a very long time. Until a future Trump comes along and rips up all the “nuclear red tape” and it leads to a global Chernobyl disaster. At that point, let’s just use solar, wind and other safer options ey.