"Nuclear power is a potential safety threat, *if* something goes wrong. Coal-fired power is *guaranteed* destruction, filling the atmosphere with planet-heating carbon when it operates the way it's supposed to". (Bill McKibben)
Same for fossil gas, by the way.
@kravietz Nuclear power is guaranteed destruction as well… Creating nuclear waste lasting for centuries and other than CO2, we don't even have a remote idea on how to get rid of it.
And no, hiding it in the ground is not a great answer as all temporary depots have shown.
I think we have to come up with better solutions there.
@pro @kravietz So, I just spend some time reading about full cycle nuclear power strategy and the first thing that sticks out is: Even for the "little" amount of nuclear waste that France produces, it has no final destination.
And another point I came across, due to the "statistics being an asshole the risk of an incident increases drastically with every new power plant, The incidents of Fukushima and Chernobyl were no exceptions, they were statically "expectable".
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00963402.2016.1145910
There are ~450 civilian nuclear reactors working all around the world as we speak.
Over the last 50 years there were *two* serious nuclear accidents among these 450 reactors.
One in a 70's military 1st gen RBMK reactor in USSR that was put into melt-down by violating all safety procedures.
Another one in 70's 2nd gen reactor in Japan built in a active seismic zone.
So yes, these two were statistically expected.
