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Climate activists are usually very against nuclear energy and I don’t think I understand why. Does anyone know?

Arguments I’m somewhat familiar with:

  • sometimes it’s used as a cover for developing nuclear weapons
  • nuclear waste is very bad for living things.

What are the main historical moral arguments?

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[–] dditty@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Storing the waste is still tricky, hence the Yucca mountain controversy and whatnot. The technology for reprocessing depleted uranium exists, but I don't think it's being done in the US at the moment.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The opposition to Yucca is mostly just reactionaries in Nevada who have been won over with scaremongering. Shut down the media boosting that narrative and it goes away.

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I don't think there exists a single long term storage facility for nuclear waste anywhere in the world. So... that's not great.

[–] kristina@hexbear.net 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

its all nonsense propaganda, that can all be rebred to produce more energy (and those fissile materials will decay rapidly), there is NO nuclear waste, that can all be fuel. they only want nuclear for weapons and only developed the infrastructure for weapons, so thats why they store the excess fissile material. the energy produced is just a side benefit to western governments.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago

There's at least one. In Finland.

Ninja edit. Haha. I thought they finally finished it. Nope. "Will be" - it's still under contruction.

The Onkalo spent nuclear fuel repository is a deep geological repository for the final disposal of spent nuclear fuel.[1][2] It is near the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant in the municipality of Eurajoki, on the west coast of Finland. It will be the world's first long-term disposal facility for spent nuclear fuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository

There was a documentary about it that came out in 2010.

Danish director Michael Madsen has co-written and directed a feature-length documentary Into Eternity (2010) where the initial phase of the excavation is featured and experts interviewed. The director's special emphasis is on the semiotic difficulties in meaningfully marking the depository as dangerous for people in the distant future.