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🇺🇸 After Indian Point #nuclear power station was closed, the 1 GW deficit was replaced entirely by fossil fuels. Good job, #greenpeace

Each *month* airline passengers expose themselves to a radiation dose equivalent to the one released in Fukushima and the dose received by airline crews are way higher than those received by #nuclear plant workers. Obviously no environmental organisations push moral panic about the about this massive source of radiation, perhaps because it's "natural" 😂

http://hpschapters.org/njhps/ShonkaAircrewRadExposure.pdf

Poland’s Synthos Green Energy has announced completion of a deployment feasibility study for the implementation of a fleet of GE Hitachi #nuclear Energy BWRX-300 small modular reactors (SMRs) in Poland.

https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsfeasibility-study-completed-on-smrs-for-poland-8415956

The competition is on for Eastern Europe’s #nuclear power market 🇨🇿 🇭🇺 🇪🇺 🇵🇱 🇦🇩

https://www.sustainability-times.com/low-carbon-energy/the-competition-is-on-for-eastern-europes-nuclear-power-market/

German #nuclear power plant Biblis shut down in 2017 now being replaced by... yes, you guessed it - by a new fossil gas power plant!

https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/unternehmen/frueherer-akw-standort-rwe-baut-in-biblis-neues-gaskraftwerk-a-d429f02b-94f8-4a92-a94a-0cd1f7b68689-amp #co2

At this moment, Germany is importing 3.3 GW of #nuclear power from France due to calm wind and no sunlight in Germany and much of Europe, plus burning coal and fossil gas like crazy...

86% of French people between the age of 18 and 34 have been brainwashed into believing that #nuclear energy CAUSES global warming. https://www.lepoint.fr/economie/rechauffement-les-francais-accusent-le-nucleaire-26-06-2019-2321239_28.php

Extinction Rebellion #xr UK ex-spokes person:

"For many years I was skeptical of #nuclear power. Surrounded by anti-nuclear activists, I had allowed fear of radiation, nuclear waste and weapons of mass destruction to creep into my subconscious. A friend sent me a scientific paper on the actual impacts, including the (very small number of) total deaths from radiation at Chernobyl and Fukushima, I realised I had been duped into anti-science sentiment all this time."

https://www.cityam.com/a-message-from-a-former-extinction-rebellion-activist-fellow-environmentalists-join-me-in-embracing-nuclear-power/

This is a plan of deep geologic repository in Germany. Wait, in Germany? I've heard Germany is closing down its nuclear plants?!

But who said it's #nuclear? Millions of tons of highly toxic mercury and arsenic waste is being stored worldwide in geologic repositories for decades. That's the only thing you can do because unlike nuclear waste you can't recycle these metals.

EROI (energy returned on invested) answers the question "how much useful energy do we obtain for a certain effort to make this energy available" #nuclear
https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.energy.2013.01.029

Closure of zero-emission #nuclear power plants is good business for environmental apparently:

"The state of New York, together with the environmental group Riverkeeper, which had waged a legal battle to shut down the plant (...) that the deal created a $15 million fund for community and environmental projects and that Riverkeeper believes it is due half of that"

https://eu.lohud.com/story/news/local/indian-point/2020/05/01/indian-point-towns-stake-claim-fund-buchanan-cortlandt-hendrick-hudson/3057517001/

Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan evacuate 70k people after a hydro dam broke... but nobody will make news of it since it's not #nuclear

https://news.trust.org/item/20200502080925-zpt2m/

As we remember the 1986 Chernobyl tragedy, it's worth also reminding that ~400 other #nuclear reactors worldwide continue operate uninterrupted for the last half century providing stable and clean electricity.

Three remaining Chernobyl reactors continued to operate safely to 2000.Even after Chernobyl closure Ukraine's energy sector continues to produce electricity at relatively low CO2 intensity thanks to #nuclear plants - today it's 240 gCO2eq/kWh while Germany is at... 230.

OPEN-100 is open-sourcing the engineering behind the most successful historical #nuclear energy deployments, offering the world an affordable alternative to fossil fuels. https://www.open-100.com/

Recycling used #nuclear fuel - The Orano la Hague site has been recycling 96% of nuclear materials in used nuclear fuel into new fuel for decades. The remaining 4% nuclear waste is vitrified in canisters, which then require storage for about 300 years, significantly less than the storage time required for unprocessed used nuclear fuel.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0UJSlKIy8g

"It Sounds Crazy, But #Fukushima, #Chernobyl, And Three Mile Island Show Why #nuclear Is Inherently Safe"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11/it-sounds-crazy-but-fukushima-chernobyl-and-three-mile-island-show-why-nuclear-is-inherently-safe/

These issues plague *all* engineering and always have. In long term, they can be solved. #Greenpeace and alike however like it black-and-white: solar is a pink unicorn that we just need to do more to get rid of #nuclear asap! This is where they hit the reality.

"Developers, contractors and bankers all struggle to come to terms with the risk of large power loss factors, grid stability problems, connection problems, and equipment performance issues … So we’re out."

https://reneweconomy.com.au/were-out-big-contractor-dramatically-quits-australian-solar-sector-33796/

“If Germany had decided in 2011 to phase out 20 gigawatts (GW) of coal plant capacity instead of #nuclear, it would have reached its #co2 emission targets and now could be rightly recognised as the European climate champion.”

https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/features/germany-nuclear-power-plants-2/

"Greens caused gigatons of carbon dioxide to enter the atmosphere from the coal and gas burning that went ahead instead of #nuclear. I was part of that too, I apologize." (Stewart Brand, 2009)

Mini #nuclear reactors could be generating power in the UK by the end of the decade.
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/business-51233444