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What if he burned down every house within 50 miles and the landscape didn’t recover for decades? What if it happened again and again?
Just a reminder, coal power releases more radiation per year than the totality of radiation released by nuclear power including all nuclear accidents and disasters... And it's not even close.
It’s disingenuous to compare radiation which is diffused globally via the atmosphere with ground contamination which is localized and thousands of times too dangerous for human habitation.
You’re saying don’t worry about the toxic waste dump next door because there’s air pollution everywhere.
Boy have I got news for you, coal is also worse in terms of ground and water pollution by a factor of 4... Without counting coal mining which is basically the most long term harmful activity to the environment humans can do.
What if we constantly subsidized industries that made our climate unlivable?
Nuclear is a sound option. We already deal with mining wastes that must be managed in perpetuity. Nuclear waste isn't much different in that regard.
Your point about landscapes also happens in mining.
Yes, we should be moving to solar instead of propping up uneconomic polluting industries like nuclear or coal.
Doing something because it's the "most economical" is why we have a climate catastrophe on our hands. Plus solar can't actually provide steady power on it's own and never will be able to. Exotic nation wide energy storage solutions do not exists at our current level of technology. Instead solar/wind has to be offset by natural gas power plants.
I fully support solar and wind but I don't think it's a one size fits all at this point. I think solar needs to get a lot more efficient and better to cover all the applications that oil and gas and coal do.
Even renewables need mining (sadly) which has significant impacts.