Xorkoth
Bluelight Crew
I entirely agree. Man, so many people are like, fuck nuclear energy, maaaaaaan! It's RADIATION! So much could go wrong! My girlfriend and I had this debate in the car last weekend on a long road trip. She doesn't self-identify as a hippie but she was raised by hippie parents and as such she has a lot of those kinds of ideas left over. She was like, well, what about Chernobyl? Meltdowns could happen at any time. Ah, but that was human error... these days it's automated and so much safer... to my knowledge no meltdowns not caused by natural disasters have happened in a long time. Well, what about Fukushima? Yeah, that was stupid to build a nuclear power plant within tsunami distance from the ocean on one of the most tsunami-ridden and geologically active islands in the world. Shouldn't have done that. We should build them all clustered in places where any natural disaster is extremely unlikely, such as the Appalachians, the Midwest outside of big tornado range, Siberia, etc. Well, the nuclear waste will kill the planet. No, it won't... it's a small amount of radioactive material. Encase it in lead and bury it. The radiation will stay contained. Well, what if it leaks? Okay, well there is radioactive material already in the Earth, it's not as big a deal as it seems.
And in any case, think about how much damage burning coal IS doing, year after year after year. It's one of the most destructive things we're doing and it's the leading cause of many problems. Think if Chernobyl hadn't happened and we had invested our focus on nulcear power for the last 6 decades instead, and stopped burning coal. We could be in a much different spot right now.
But instead fear and propaganda from the fossil fuels industry(ies) have people thinking that a handful of hypothetical possibilities for something to go wrong with a clean energy source outweigh the very real, inevitable and staggeringly negative consequences of burning coal/other fossil fuels.
It's crazy though, around my neck of the woods there's this town with a nuclear power plant, and also sinkholes. Many people are convinced the sinkholes and nuclear power plant are connected. I'm like, no, the sinkholes are from mining, how would a nuclear power plant cause sinkholes? But logic doesn't seem to matter, they're convinced nuclear power is evil and sinister.
And in any case, think about how much damage burning coal IS doing, year after year after year. It's one of the most destructive things we're doing and it's the leading cause of many problems. Think if Chernobyl hadn't happened and we had invested our focus on nulcear power for the last 6 decades instead, and stopped burning coal. We could be in a much different spot right now.

It's crazy though, around my neck of the woods there's this town with a nuclear power plant, and also sinkholes. Many people are convinced the sinkholes and nuclear power plant are connected. I'm like, no, the sinkholes are from mining, how would a nuclear power plant cause sinkholes? But logic doesn't seem to matter, they're convinced nuclear power is evil and sinister.
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