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What are the moral arguments against nuclear energy? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 month 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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[–] Euergetes@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago

rant about this back of the envelope math

spoilerthere 100% is, literally just uranium. "reserves" of minerals are measured by concentrations profitable to mine using current prices and extraction techniques. if all power was running off uranium it'd suddenly make a lot more sense and money to mine poorer deposits and use more expensive kinds of extraction. And guess what? people would explore more and find new deposits because uranium is pretty shit to speculate on with such low demand

but more importantly, nobody. ever. has proposed this. it's like arguing against solar because the sun goes down