(March 12, 2022 at 12:53 am)AFTT47 Wrote:(March 12, 2022 at 12:37 am)Jehanne Wrote: Renewable energy is even safer. You can replace the 200+ coal plants in the US with nuclear; it will only delay the inevitable, even by 1,000 years, but, such will still come, eventually. In the process many tons and tons of nuclear waste will be produced that will need to be safely stored for the next quarter of million years. And, that presupposes that none of that waste will escape back into the environment.
In any case, carbon emissions continue to rise, up 2.5 ppm over last year, and so, nuclear power isn't reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which continue to rise.
You just made an excellent argument in favor of nuclear power. All we need is 50 years at most before it is practical to switch entirely to renewable power. Dealing with relatively low-level radioactive waste produced from nuclear plants during that transition period is considerably less of an issue than dealing with the fallout of continuing to rely on fossil fuels for the same period.
It's not happening though, is it? And, how long has nuclear power been around? We'll continue to burn coal, no matter how many nuclear power plants are built. If the coal is not burned here in the United States, it will simply be shipped elsewhere.
