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No_Mushroom351 t1_ixrjoak wrote

Reply to comment by ThisistheInfiniteIs in Germany approves welfare reform, extends nuclear power | Germany's upper house of parliament approved measures aimed at helping people hit hard by high energy prices and the high cost of living. The country's nuclear power extension will also take effect immediately. by misana123

Oh boy.

Somebody is very ignorant on nuclear plants, the technology today and doesn't realize the water vapor exhaust of nuclear is CO2 free.

Tell me more about the solar batteries! How toxic are they by comparison?

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Fuckyourdatareddit t1_ixs4nqd wrote

How much CO2 is released building nuclear plants again 🤔

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SoggyBiscuit7835 t1_ixsdkbs wrote

Quite a lot but if you divide that by the energy yielded it's actually very favourable.

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Preisschild t1_ixu41uz wrote

Not as much over the lifespan of the plant as other energy sources like hydro.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_ixrybpp wrote

Predictable nuke shill spreading the "nuclear fission is zero carbon" lie again.

Are batteries dangerously radioactive for 200,000 years?

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No_Mushroom351 t1_ixs858p wrote

lol. A swimming pool of spent fuel rods powers 150 million homes. Yeah. A swimming pool

Don't think you even realize these spent fuels are transported on the highway all the time. You can stand next to one of the containers for a year and you won't even get a fraction of what the sun gives you. They've driven past you for more than half a century and you weren't even aware.

Also, most modern reactors can even run off recycled spent fuel rods.

Is it reactive? Yes. Then put a foot of material between you and you're fine.

Btw it's not glowing liquid goo in drums.

Everyone crying about it has zero understanding of how the plants today operate, what protocols are already in place, how radiation works on a physical level, etc.

If you even knew what material those batteries are made of, how lithium is mined and transported, how much ore has to be processed to make a single windmill...

I like green energy, I just think people that downplay nuclear are extremely ignorant on physics.

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