Nuclear power thread

Robovski

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Firstly, some oppose real solutions to problems because then you have to find a new cause. Secondly, radiation scary! Who can trust those eggheads not to doom us all! Third, there are vested interests that would be harmed and they have a lot of money and the support of the previous two points.

Not that I agree that this is the way it should be, but because it is that way it's not just an uphill battle but a rampart to be scaled.
 

TheRomanSlayer

Unipolarity is for Subhuman Trogdolytes
Nuclear power is a great thing, but as Fukushima showed, building it at a disaster prone area would be a literal recipe for disaster, unless if there is a special building technology that could resist earthquakes of all levels on the Richter scale. That's why BC has banned the construction of nuclear power plants.
 

bintananth

behind a desk
Firstly, some oppose real solutions to problems because then you have to find a new cause. Secondly, radiation scary! Who can trust those eggheads not to doom us all! Third, there are vested interests that would be harmed and they have a lot of money and the support of the previous two points.

Not that I agree that this is the way it should be, but because it is that way it's not just an uphill battle but a rampart to be scaled.
To elaborate on your three points ...

A lot of people don't want the problem solved. They just want to bitch about it.

Most people don't understand radiation and would be screaming bloody murder if they knew that a wall with a 2hr fire rating has one more layer of drywall than the walls of a hospital nuclear medicine lab.

The powers that be have a very vested interest in making sure that their apple carts do not get overturned.
 

TheRomanSlayer

Unipolarity is for Subhuman Trogdolytes
From what I heard, the ones who don't want nuclear energy to become common might have a larger stake in the current profit making energies (oil and gas).

On the other hand, if we're also talking about the future construction of space colonies, I would suspect that they'd build a floating nuclear reactor that would be built on the side of the colony cylinders.
 

Aldarion

Neoreactionary Monarchist
From what I heard, the ones who don't want nuclear energy to become common might have a larger stake in the current profit making energies (oil and gas).

Yeah, what I don't understand however are useful idiots such as greenpeace and other eco-morons.
 

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