kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@sheogorath

You correctly noted that you "don't know". This is unfortunately part of the extremely biased disinformation package provided by Greens.

1975 - Banqiao dam distaster in China killed *230'000* people

Some died of impact and drowning, some of famine and diseases caused by contamination of the land.

@pro

@sheogorath @pro

The situation in Germany however is not politics really, although it was *caused* by politics.

Politics told grid operators: you must provide stable power supply, and reduce CO2, and no more nuclear.

Grid operators replied: you can only choose two. This is how you ended up with stable power supply based on coal and gas, no nuclear and no CO2 reductions.

@sheogorath

Certainly no more nuclear power in Germany, because society is so terrorized by the Greens that no rational arguments are going to work until that generation passes away so another 20 years.

@sheogorath

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.

@pro

@sheogorath

At the same time coal is causing early death of thousands of people across the whole Europe, including Germany and Poland.

Yet, you're afraid of Chernobyl, and not afraid of coal.

This irrationality is 100% based on propaganda being spread by Greens and has nothing to do with reality.

@pro

@sheogorath

There are tourist excursions organised there from Kyiv and I'm actually planning to go there with kids in May.

@pro

@sheogorath

Sorry but what you say is completely irrational.

Chernobyl disaster killed ~200 people over 20 years period.

This is the Pripyat exclusion zone today:

@pro

@sheogorath So for example France did just that using nuclear and renewables. Their energy related CO2 emissions are below 100 gCO2eq/kWh - last week they were below 50 even.

Germany scared itself to death with nuclear, and closed still operational plants, switching instead to coal and fossil gas. Their emissions are usually 3-6x worse than France.

In terms of decarbonization, France closed its last coal plant in 2007, while Germany just *opened* a new one thus year.

@sheogorath @pro Russia - BN-600 fast breeder reactor just went live last month reusing MOX fuel partially composed of "used" fuel.

@sheogorath Correct, because used fuel cannot be stored underground while it still emits heat. That's why it's kept in temporary containers for 10 years and then either reprocessed or vitrified and stored underground.

@sheogorath

You're perfectly right in that we need carbon-free economy ASAP. But that's the point of nuclear exactly: it's the *only* carbon free and scalable energy source we have today.

Solar and wind - investment costs are huge due to low efficiency (15-40%), and they can't work alone due to intermittent nature. Technologies to deal with that are at the same stage as ITER - a decade away.