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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Metal_Zealot@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?


Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I'm more depressed than when I posted this

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[-] cupcakezealot 2 points 2 years ago

nuclear power and nuclear bombs are the same.

As long as nuclear power exists, it will be used to pursue bombs.

Not to mention that nuclear power is incredibly unsafe and damaging

[-] Zangoose@lemmy.one 11 points 2 years ago

Coal mining kills more people per year than nuclear does. Pollution kills more people by several magnitudes than nuclear ever could. When proper safety measures are put in place it's by far the safest form of energy. And regardless of whether people make nuclear power plants, the technology exists, so it will be used to make bombs regardless

[-] Player2@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 years ago

You can make an explosive out of a pressure cooker, therefore everyone that buys a pressure cooker is a domestic terrorist! You're welcome FBI

[-] CharAhNalaar@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Even if you get rid of every nuclear power plant, governments will still pursue bombs.

[-] someguy3@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

You've bought the misinformation.

[-] CybranM@feddit.nu 2 points 2 years ago

By your logic we should stop using wind power because more people have died per kWh produced than nuclear https://www.statista.com/statistics/494425/death-rate-worldwide-by-energy-source/

[-] SilverFlame@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

There are newer models of plants that dont produce the byproducts needed for nuclear armaments. The problem is that our governments want those byproducts for nuclear armaments so the safer reactors were never built.

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