This is a much cheaper and faster way to get nuclear power.

  • rafoix@lemmy.zip
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    1 day ago

    They should be forced to make their own clean power plants. No clean coal, no natural gas. Only renewable since it is a guarantee that they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.

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      Nuclear energy is a con
      It’s just a cover for making their bombs
      And it sends people to an early grave
      So we want the power of the wind and the waves

      Harness the wind
      Harness the waves
      We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste
      Solar power - yet another alternative
      Think of the boundless energy the sun has to give
      Then there’s hydro-electricity with turbines and dams
      And we can cut our consumption with conservation programmes

      Harness the wind
      The sun the waves
      We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste
      The civil atomic energy programmes is nothing but an elaborate cover-up for the real use of nuclear power namely the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons
      We call for an end to the nuclear power programmes and properly funded research into renewable sources of energy

      Harness the wind
      The sun the waves
      We don’t need this filthy nuclear waste

      https://youtu.be/DjF6g51GHng

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      they will leave 100% of the cost of the nuclear disposal to the taxpayers.

      As opposed to the military handling disposal of the reactor materials… which is paid by… the taxpayers.

      You didn’t think this comment through every much, or at all really, did you?

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        I think this song epitomises what rafoix replied with

        Safety rules - corners cut
        Just to keep the profits up
        Money saved - profits rise
        But consequence is someone dies

        Victim of a chemical spillage

        Safety regulations breached
        Critical concentrations reached
        Money is saved but a live is lost
        Loved ones left to count the cost

        Tanker crashing the village
        Death could from the spillage
        No escape from the fumes
        Peoples’ homes become their tombs

        In the face of corporate greed
        Ecodefence is what we need
        Read and act upon this text
        Or you become the next victim of a chemical spillage

        https://youtu.be/Q3sHdN4f_TI

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        I trust the military doing it to spec a million times more than any company executives. It’ll probably be left to pollute the area they hide it for decades before taxpayers have to pay for it.

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          The military probably will do better than a private company but also remember that the military has had numerous toxic waste problems. Camp Lejeune’s cancers and all the firefighting PFAs contaminating water supplies are just two i can think of off the top of my head but i’m sure theres many more.

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        The DOE doing it is already financially accounted for and there is a professional staff that are trained on how to do it

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        I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.

        If they’re too dumb to figure it out, they’re too dumb to make AI profitable.

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          I don’t give a shit. That should be their problem not ours.

          This should be everyone’s reaction when faced with “but how will [company] profit with [X] ?” questions.

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            It’s a bunch of indoctrination brainrot where all they ever think about is being of service to the wealthy.

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          They can afford the higher cost of electricity, but the rest of us can’t, if they can add nuclear reactors to the power grid then it will drive the prices for normal people down so that it’s nearly free.

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            20 hours ago

            You actually think they would lower the cost of electricity. Other than naivety, what evidence do you have that will show us how benevolent tech bros are?