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EdmondDantes_

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7. Dirty energy is killing us today and nuclear energy kills fewer

Reply to indusurb (Reply #6)

Mon Aug 18, 2025, 11:24 AM

Aug 2025

You can point to Chernobyl or Fukushima, but that's a lot like pointing to an airplane crash and saying it's more dangerous than driving when the statistics point the other way.

Coal plants generate the same waste in an hour that a nuclear plant does over its lifespan.

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Denver's airport has announced that they will begin studying whether a small, modular nuclear reactor...... [View all] FadedMullet Aug 2025 OP

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First you would need to solve the two huge problems with nuclear power indusurb Aug 2025 #2

Fuck that shit, fix the roads, fill the damn potholes. Hotler Aug 2025 #3

Jeez, I imagine that the roads around the Denver Airport, that is, the.... FadedMullet Aug 2025 #11

Of course, it would have to the Denver airport. harumph Aug 2025 #4

Nuclear power and safety has come a long way EdmondDantes_ Aug 2025 #5

Nuclear power is safe, indusurb Aug 2025 #6

Dirty energy is killing us today and nuclear energy kills fewer EdmondDantes_ Aug 2025 #7

It just isn't the big, splashy disasters like Chernobyl or Fukushima that are the problem indusurb Aug 2025 #9

Kansas you say? Meh... Hassin Bin Sober Aug 2025 #8

The U.S. Navy has been operating small nuclear reactors for more than seventy years. hunter Aug 2025 #10