What exactly is hypocritical about that??? Solar enthusiasts are neither hypocritical nor 'anti-nuklear', they just don't celebrate wasteful inefficient technology like fission power, which BTW depends on uranium delivered by war criminals.
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lol, it's efficient, safe and carbon-free, and best of all: baseload power, always on. Most U238 comes from Kazakhstan, Canada is second, so I assume you're referring to enriched uranium from Russia, which unfortunately is still in use until more domestic and allied sources come on line.
aug 30, 2025, 4:00 pm • 1 0 • view
Sorry, meant U3O8, not U238.
aug 30, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
www.energy.gov/ne/articles/...
aug 30, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
We can argue about opinions but not about physics. Efficiency and safety are most certainly NOT in the book for fission. Carbon free is neither true if you look at the whole picture including logistics and plant lifecycle.
aug 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 1 0 • view
There's plenty of info out there that says otherwise (on your first point). I'm not going to find it for you because you're not going to be convinced, regardless. On your second point, the same is true of solar and wind, if you include everything. Solar requires mining of rare earths, etc.
aug 30, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Don't get me wrong-- I support solar. But I'm also very much in favor of nuclear power, which has gotten a bad rap over the years. What most people don't know is how much of the anti-nuclear sentiment was fueled and funded by big oil.
aug 30, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
I don't see a SINGLE strong point a fission power: It's not sustainable, unsafe during operation (Three Mile Island, Tschernobyl and Fukushima just to name a few incidents), not economical, all the real cost has to be cross-financed by future generations (longterm waste storage, fission plants).
aug 30, 2025, 4:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Three Mile Island didn't cause a single death from radiation. Fukushima was a tsunami. The evacuation caused more problems than radiation. The deaths were from the tsunami itself. Chernobyl was an actual disaster, caused by the incompetence of the Soviets. No one still does it that way.
aug 30, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
You sure have a way of glossing over even the MAJOR disasters. So if there are no dead people or any contributing factors all is fine and well....
aug 30, 2025, 4:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Chernobyl was not fine and well, but is not relevant to how things are done today. There are risks with all forms of energy production, even solar and wind. Oil and gas are worse, especially oil. Wind is worse than nuclear (by a little) and nuclear is worse than solar by that same amount. (see below
aug 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
www.statista.com/statistics/4...
aug 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
You have to click to see the labels. I forgot coal... it's by far the worst, much worse even than oil.
aug 30, 2025, 4:43 pm • 0 0 • view
We're getting a bit lost. No argument there, even if I have some doubt about the numbers it just confirms what I thought anyway. Except I'd NEVER label nuclear as 'renewable' as long it is not fusion.
aug 30, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
I live in Europe, most of our Uranium comes from the war criminal and poisoner in the Kremlin or his puppets in Kazachstan
aug 30, 2025, 4:15 pm • 0 0 • view
Running a fission plant for a few decades and than strong-arm our descendents into safekeeping the toxic radioactive waste for countless generations is hardly 'efficient'. It's just reckless! Just like not including unlimited insurance on operational risk during production. Somebody will have to pay
aug 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 0 0 • view
The fears about spent fuel are overblown. People imagine huge cans full of glowing green sludge, and it's just not true at all. There are several companies working on various methods of recycling spent fuel to get more out of it (and reduce waste). The technology continues to develop.
aug 30, 2025, 4:21 pm • 0 0 • view
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzQ3...
aug 30, 2025, 4:23 pm • 0 0 • view
The important fact is that we don't have a real solution for it, not that someone is still searching for one! In my book the very fact, that waste is a result of the process pretty much DEFINES inefficiency!
aug 30, 2025, 4:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey man, neither of us is going to convince the other on this. We're likely on the same side of 99% of other issues, so let's just shake hands on be on our way... peace and love.
aug 30, 2025, 4:34 pm • 1 0 • view
"and", not "on" in the last sentence
aug 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
Amen to that 😀👍 Besides, I kind of like arguing with people who have a different opinion, it's certainly more engaging and possible even enlightening. You seem try to stick the facts (even though rather selectively, which is understandable) and I appreciate that!
aug 30, 2025, 5:35 pm • 1 0 • view