Comments by "Mark Pawelek" (@mark4asp) on "Is Nuclear Energy Green?" video.
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So many anti-nuclear myths in this talk, I lost count.
1. "Uranium is runnng out"
<- The institute who authored the study Sabine cited are an anti-nuclear power think tank. There's loads of Uranium. Nuclear fuel can also be made from Thorium. One Physics Nobel prize winner estimated there's enough Thorium in the earth's crust to supply all the energy needs of humanity for the next 20 billion years (which is far longer than the projected life of earth and sun)
2. "Nuclear power is expensive"
<- Everything is expensive. Also: levelized costs of energy is a nonsense idea - because no renewable energy stands alone. "Levelized costs of energy", is basically: dishonest, anti-nuke, pro-renewables, propaganda. Because levelized costs, don't measure dispatchable power - which is the only useful power. Nuclear power is dispatchable. Wind and solar are not.
3. "Nuclear power plants take ages to build"
<- Everything does today. For example, as I write, they've been building a housing estate near me for over a decade. Still no people living in it!
4. "Accidents in nuclear power plants are a nightmare"
<- No one ever died due to a radiation accident in a civilian nuclear power plant. Chernobyl was military technology in a dictatorship.
5. "Fast breeder reactors are cooled with sodium"
<- They don't have to be. They can be cooled by molten salts.
6. "Molten salt is highly corrosive and quickly degrades containers made to hold it"
<- Really? So why are solar power plants trying to use molten salt to store heat?
I agree with Sabine's conclusion "let the market decide"
I disagree with Sabine's climate paranoia.
BTW: To fans of nuclear power - everytime you try to scare people by citing climate paranoia you are just giving the scare-mongers more fuel to burn me, and you, with.
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