why we don’t rely on nuclear power plants more, especially these days
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In short, money and politics. The green lobby around the world was basically founded on anti-nuclear sentiment because they couldn’t (and still can’t) separate nuclear weapons with nuclear power in their minds.
Nuclear got an undeserved bad reputation that made it politically unpopular to the point that people would rather have a coal plant (that emits more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants) because of entirely baseless fears.
Nuclear plants are very expensive at the beginning and end of their life cycles, but last a lot longer than other plants. This means you need to spend a ton of money before you make any money so it’s unattractive to private investors and governments alike.
In short, money and politics. The green lobby around the world was basically founded on anti-nuclear sentiment because they couldn’t (and still can’t) separate nuclear weapons with nuclear power in their minds.
Nuclear got an undeserved bad reputation that made it politically unpopular to the point that people would rather have a coal plant (that emits more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants) because of entirely baseless fears.
Nuclear plants are very expensive at the beginning and end of their life cycles, but last a lot longer than other plants. This means you need to spend a ton of money before you make any money so it’s unattractive to private investors and governments alike.
Nuclear plants face the double problems of being very expensive to build and that money needs to be invested a long time before any power is generated, this is then combined with that when they go wrong it is a true disaster and will probably cost politicians and senior employees their jobs. This means that Renewables make a better option for a new generating power plant.
Nuclear plants face the double problems of being very expensive to build and that money needs to be invested a long time before any power is generated, this is then combined with that when they go wrong it is a true disaster and will probably cost politicians and senior employees their jobs. This means that Renewables make a better option for a new generating power plant.
In short, money and politics. The green lobby around the world was basically founded on anti-nuclear sentiment because they couldn’t (and still can’t) separate nuclear weapons with nuclear power in their minds.
Nuclear got an undeserved bad reputation that made it politically unpopular to the point that people would rather have a coal plant (that emits more radiation into the environment than nuclear plants) because of entirely baseless fears.
Nuclear plants are very expensive at the beginning and end of their life cycles, but last a lot longer than other plants. This means you need to spend a ton of money before you make any money so it’s unattractive to private investors and governments alike.
Humans are emotional and stupid. Nuclear power is scary and can have bad accidents, even though it outperforms fossil fuels in both safety and sustainability overall.
Same reason Americans spent all of the 2000s more afraid of terrorists than obesity, when one killed a couple thousand and the other killed millions
Humans are emotional and stupid. Nuclear power is scary and can have bad accidents, even though it outperforms fossil fuels in both safety and sustainability overall.
Same reason Americans spent all of the 2000s more afraid of terrorists than obesity, when one killed a couple thousand and the other killed millions
Humans are emotional and stupid. Nuclear power is scary and can have bad accidents, even though it outperforms fossil fuels in both safety and sustainability overall.
Same reason Americans spent all of the 2000s more afraid of terrorists than obesity, when one killed a couple thousand and the other killed millions
It’s hard to get approval to build one, people are against it because of the few bad accidents you hear about.
More people have died at coal mines, building dams, drilling for oil etc but it doesn’t make the news like Fukushima or Chernobyl.
Politicians do what the constituents want, so the make policy that makes it tough.
Nuclear power has the lowest overall impact on the environment and is comparably mu h safer than anything else.
It’s hard to get approval to build one, people are against it because of the few bad accidents you hear about.
More people have died at coal mines, building dams, drilling for oil etc but it doesn’t make the news like Fukushima or Chernobyl.
Politicians do what the constituents want, so the make policy that makes it tough.
Nuclear power has the lowest overall impact on the environment and is comparably mu h safer than anything else.
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