Do you support the use of nuclear energy?
No, we should invest in cleaner alternatives such as wind, hydroelectric, thorium, and geothermal
Nuclear energy has not happened in 12 years, Fukushima Daiichi (at most a minor accident in the history of energy) being the most recent. The only real issue on the list of disasters is Chernobyl, which only ever broke as OLD technology, WITHOUT it's safety systems on, and the workers were even misinformed on what button to press. A large series of failures had to happen to make it explode, and that tech is considered ancient compared to today. Regulations in place for those reactors make them take decades to build, and have heavy supervision. Nuclear waste storage has already been solved, and we've made methods that buy us several thousand years, while also being the single most reliable source of energy to power the world. It's the most energetic and viable option on the list, and is extremely useful to the transition of energy from fossil fuels to alternatives. America, in fact, is also the leader in nuclear technologies, and has only had one noticeable meltdown; 3 Mile Island. That accident had a death toll of 0, and the area is still not dangerous to humans, though it's not advised to live there.
Nuclear isn't perfect, but it's literally the best option on the list of them all, and it's storage is a problem we've already bought enough time to solve easily. To replace the power output of all fossil fuels on earth with just nuclear, we'd need only 5,000 3 Gigawatt reactors. Not exactly an impossible task, and we have enough uranium in the ground for 2,000 years while oil has 50 estimated leftover. Heck, hydro dams have a higher kill count than nuclear, and I mean MUCH higher. For example, the Banqiao Dam Eruption in the Heinan Province, China, killed over 170,000 people, with over a million missing. The Chinese, of course, devalued the number at around 26,000, which is still leagues ahead of the 132 hospitalizations from the Chernobyl Reactor-4 explosion.
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