Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "The government let me kiss nuclear waste." video.

  1. 17:00 Regarding nuclear waste never having leaked before, that's such a poor argument... When you have waste that keeps being dangerous for tens of thousands of years or more then what happens in a few decades is completely irrelevant... 10 000 years ago we still had glaciers covering most of the northern hemisphere... Nuclear waste is a problem at a geological time scale, not just a human one... And quite frankly a nuclear accident happening in 5 000 years is just as good a argument against building more of them as one that has already happened. There's still areas in my country, Norway, where you need to be careful with what you eat etc because of Chernobyl. Where grazing animals can get a exposure level high enough to not be safe... All because the wind happened to blow our way that day...
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  2. The problem isn't safety pr say, but that building a safe plant is expensive and takes too long time to solve our environmental issues. And due to the the expenses the terms of the nuclear power plant companies with the energy grid operators ends up being extremely harmful towards renewable energy... Also, nuclear energy being environmentally friendly depends a lot on the context of the study in question. Yes, if you built a nuclear power plant 30-40 years ago and run it for all of that time and still haven't spent any CO2 on actually tearing it down then yes, you'll end up with the total power produced divided on the total amount of CO2 produced being less polluting then even a windturbine in terms of the total amount of pollution. The problems is that you have to keep the powerplants running (the whole base load idea is fundamentally flawed and harmful to renewables), and the waste when you tear down the powerplant and all the parts of the powerplant, combined with the mining of the fuel etc you end up with more harm and harm lasting longer then renewables, especially if you factor in that they make power storage and renewables less profitable and therefore viable. Of course you can build a cheap and fast nuclear power plant, that's where you get unsafe ones... I agree that existing nuclear power plants should not be torn down yet if they're still in a good enough condition to be safe. There's bigger issues to deal with then the existing nuclear power plants, and we've already paid the money and the pollution of the nuclear power plants.
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