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TURKEY POWER (mander.xyz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

With Vogtle expansion costing over $15B per gw, that is $6000+ per fed person, before counting the cost of importing uranium from Russia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

6000$ to "feed" every X minutes that it takes to microwave to microwave a turkey. This plant cook 2.5 million turkey in parrallel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Also without storing the nuclear waste.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago

or security costs, including the promised good time of civil war that get's floated around.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago

Corporate propaganda power!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (12 children)

Now calculate how many generations of turkeys will be eaten till the waste stops killing people

Edit: can't believe how many people here are falling for nuclear. Have you all learned nothing from what companies did with fossil fuels? Taking the profits and leaving humanity with a fucked up world? And now you are falling for the same stuff with nuclear again, I assume this is the discourse in america which is so scewed? Here in Europe people are not that naive... Even the ones in France, which is quite into nuclear are reasonable and see the waste problem normally.

And here on Lemmy people really come and say "nuclear waste isn't dangerous, it didn't kill anyone"

Wtf people?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Nuclear waste is indeed a problem, however it is a contained problem that can be isolated. Oil's byproduct are distributed into the atmosphere and are killing every living thing on earth. Do you know how many people die every year due to pollution from burning fossil fuels? It's orders of magnitude worse. The fear of nuclear waste, while absolutely an issue, is so incredibly blown out of proportion compared to the silent killer that is fossil fuels.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

You people always come and compare to oil.

THATS A STRAWMAN NOONE IS ARGUING FOR OIL

yes short term the rising temp by climate gases is prob worse, but you need to compare it to actual alternatives, like wind, water, sun -.-

Everyone fucking knowes that oil needs to be stopped from being used better yesterday then today, but this doesn't make nuclear any better

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Things lemmy loves: imperial propaganda, corporate propaganda, genocide, joe and kamala, liberalism, blaming (non)voters, anti-russian racism, etc.

Still better than reddit.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago

in a country where half of the presidents cant even pronounce nukular....and the only usecase for nukular is make some machines like openAI work cheaper. go eat the nukular waste george.

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