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    9 months ago

    Fission waste is stored in pools and dry casks and never hurts anybody during normal operation.

    Coal waste is belched into the atmosphere 24/7 and contains many bad substances aside from the radioactive ones.

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      Fission waste is stored in pools and dry casks and never hurts anybody during normal operation.

      Right. During normal operation the risks are minute, but what about threat scenarios outside of normal operation? Starting on page 112 here’s a list of possible threat scenarios as compiled by the Fraunhofer institute: https://www.isi.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/isi/dokumente/ccv/2013/ETTIS_Deliverable_4_4_Catalogue of Threat Scenarios.pdf

      Coal waste is belched into the atmosphere 24/7 and contains many bad substances aside from the radioactive ones.

      That’s also true. But again, being in opposition of using nuclear power plants as long as there is no long term storage facility, does not mean I’m a coal proponent. Coal will be phased out in 2038 and the idea is to build 40 green hydrogen power plants, to enable the transition. There will be no new coal power plants build in Germany according to the current plan.

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        Coal will be phased out in 2038

        More than 30 years too late… If, instead, these morons had phased out coal FIRST and relied on Nuclear for the transition, how much damage could we have avoided from the imesureable destruction climate change has caused?

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          I don’t know. I can also ask: How much damage could have been avoided if Chernobyl and Fukushima would have not been built. But IMHO this makes no sense since these hypothetical scenarios are not the topic of this discussion.

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            9 months ago

            Sure thing, astroturfer. Funny, 8 months not posting anything, then suddenly defending oil interests like a guard dog.

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              9 months ago

              It’s called interest. I made clear on multiple occasions that being against nuclear power does not make me a proponent of fossil fuel power production. I think we have to get rid of fossil fuel power production as well as nuclear power production.

              Please refrain from personal attacks and try to discuss using credible sources and arguments. Hers a primer on discussion skills: https://www.student.unsw.edu.au/discussion-skills