This better not end with barrels of radioactive waste sitting around military bases. They have a bad track record when it comes to toxic chemicals escaping containment.
The US military has a bad history of nuclear cleanup. Lookup the base abandoned in Greenland.
This is another case of a broken clock, I guess.
Good. We should have a lot more nuclear and a lot less coal and gas. The military tends to be a technology driver, so maybe we’ll get there sooner.
Good, build em everywhere. 2 billion seems very low for 5 though.
Good? Jesus Christ, how susceptible we are to propaganda.
What do you have against nuclear ? I’m an engineer working in the electricity generation space. My opinion is based on lived industry experience and education. Are you one of the people who thinks we just need solar and that’s it?
The fact that you have to ask what is wrong with nuclear, kind of suggests a lot about you. Either believing in falsities, or dishonest. So which is it mister or misses engineer?
The fact that you brought up being an engineer like that gives you special insight into nuclear, just further suggests you are deficient in either quality or honesty frankly.
How silly of doctors to think they have some special insight into diseases and human biology. How silly of exterminators to think they have some special insight into the habits of pests. How silly of novelists to think they have some special insight into story structure. How silly of oompa loompas to think they have some special insight into sweets and vanishing children.
Any full witted person knows the experts work at the mercy of the oligarchy, and are the last ones to be trusted. You are either not full witted, or dishonest.
As I said, nuclear trade groups have funded hard charging influence operations, on lemmy too. Are you a tool of theirs, or just weak minded? That’s rhetorical, I don’t care what you think or say, I don’t think you are a real person and if you are, are not a serious learned person. Now piss off.
I’m presenting myself as someone who genuinely knows what they are talking about. Not a rando with poorly informed opinions. I’ve been working in generation for 10+ years. I’m a mechanical engineer qualified to operate in nuclear power plants. I’ve spent considerable time learning about them and visited several in order to be qualified (licensure). If it didn’t require me to relocate, I’d be working in one right now. That’s the “special insight” actual insight, education and experience. You wrote a lot of words but managed to have zero substance. What about nuclear power makes it a problem in your opinion? I’m willing to talk to you about it.
The fact that you dodge the question instead of providing literally any example suggests you don’t have any great examples.
I don’t argue with clankers, influence agents, or their dupes. Not more than I have to. You are clearly not a [redacted] person.
Then why not just shut the fuck up if you’re not gonna say anything useful? Stroking your ego publicly and insulting others is less than useless.
I’m trying to recall the last Nuclear emergency we had involving U.S. Military aircraft carriers or submarines or massive nuclear weapons stockpile.
Where’s the propaganda?
Oh the nuclear trade groups have been on an aggressive public relations campaign, replete with social media influence operations and bots and shit.
It’s way worse than you think.
If anyone is a propaganda bot it’s you.
Obviously they can’t trust The Grid and want energy sovereignty for national security reasons.
Renewable and energy storage would be a better, but if they already secure the Uranium for fuel, or build the reactors capable of using salvaged Plutonium, they can stay relatively self-sufficient.
Slash renewable power & wind turbines, and install nuclear?
I’d prefer it was a both-and thing, not an either-or. I think we should ramp up solar and turbines much, much, much more but I also think we should have (modern) nuclear installations augmenting things, as we take coal-fire plants offline.
A lot of people are in love with nuclear! It’s so easy to forget Three-Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima. There are lots of lessor incidents.. I’d rather see solutions like better batteries, grid-scale batteries, and solar on every rooftop, wind power where conditions support it. I think they’re a lot safer than dealing with ionizing radiation.
I’m not in love with nuclear. My parents were anti-nuclear activists; believe me, I’ve heard a lot of anti-nuclear arguments ever since childhood and for as long as my parents were alive.
Also: I distinctly remember leaving the area of TMI to stay with relatives when the news broke, since my family lived not that far from TMI at the time.
However, I do think new designs do need a new reassessment. I’d want that to be done by people acting in good faith, which of course excludes the clowns and the idiots and the suck-ups in this administration.
nuclear is extremely expensive & carbon-intensive to set up
Not to mention far more dangerous and produces waste material that we’ve decided to just bury.
Not how that works. These types of reactors have other problems associated with them, but they do still produce waste material that has to be buried. They just produce less than conventional reactors.
Unfortunate
