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What are the moral arguments against nuclear energy? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 week ago by Salah@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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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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[–] someone@hexbear.net 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

France famously built a bunch of nuclear plants then just sorta said "oh, just kidding, we love oil." And shutdown then destroyed the plants (to my knowledge). That seems insane to me especially post-2000 where climate change was known to be a looming but solvable issue.

I think you may be thinking of Germany. France has had issues of its own however. One is that climate change has increased the average temperature of the water sources near their plants needed for cooling and steam production, which in a nutshell is not good for reactors. The other is that Niger has retaken control over the uranium mining within their borders, which historically fuelled French reactors.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 1 week ago

Hey, there's east France and west France. Wtf is Germany? (This statement would probably bring glee to some fail grandson of Charlemagne)

Honestly rising water is something I hadn't considered. It's probably something people building reactors before like 2000 also didn't consider. That sucks.