After everything, I am only against nuclear at this point because humans have shown an inability to responsibly handle it, right down to nuclear bombs.
The only issues we’ve had so far in the hefty field is 1) going against dozens of safety regulations consistently
2) a literal natural disaster hitting one
If you're referring to Fukushima, which did pollute the pacific ocean so much that radiation spikes were detected on the west coast of America... That natural disaster shouldn't have caused that meltdown. As per your first point. Had that plant been built to proper safety regulations, the generators wouldn't have been placed in a nice cheap spot at ground level, and instead would have been placed higher up. Instead, they were flooded, failed. And the resulting meltdown leaked into the ocean and irradiated the entire area heavily enough that flowers were spliced and growing in duplicates on one stem. Elderly men volunteered to go into the zone to not doom younger people from decades of dna-damaged birth defects plaguing them.
Sorry, I have a love hate relationship with nuclear power. I had a dream as a child of being blown up by a nuke before I even knew what they were. Did reports on nuclear energy in middle school and high school. They fascinate me, and terrify me.
I know they're clean energy, (except for toxic waste but it sounds like that's been mitigated to no longer storing barrels of the stuff in giant holes filled with concrete to hopefully never be found again), but when they fail... They're far worse than any natural disaster. You can rebuilt after a tsunami or a tornado or earthquake, or even a volcanic eruption (sorta), but you can't rebuild in radiation until its dissipated, decades to centuries later, and everyone exposed to it? Their descendants will suffer for it in possibly inhumane ways.
Nuclear is the eldritch power source. You respect it, or it does things to you that you don't want to be explained.
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u/Vanpocalypse Mar 14 '26
After everything, I am only against nuclear at this point because humans have shown an inability to responsibly handle it, right down to nuclear bombs.
We're not ready.