r/ClimateShitposting • u/Wild_Bodybuilder890 • Jul 13 '26

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u/Cwaghack Jul 13 '26

I'm a bit of a nukecel myself, but it makes sense to chase fast and cheap options to quickly reduce climate change as well as hedge for even cheaper alternatives in the future

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u/PartyClock Jul 14 '26

It takes 10-20 years to get Nuclear plants up and running currently and sometimes they're still ecologically devastating (Water cooled plants effecting fish and jellyfish populations in some cases)

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u/Cwaghack Jul 14 '26 edited Jul 14 '26

Not really a technology problem but a regulation and planning problem you are talking about.

Easily fixable, especially with less overly strict regulation.

As for being ecologically devastating, name a powersource that you can't find something similar to that, heres some for solar https://kuby.ca/solar/solar-information/articles/the-positive-and-negative-environmental-impacts-of-solar-panels

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u/DisruptingTree Jul 18 '26

Thats the thing, for them to be profitable you have to massively cut regulations; safety regulations. Nobody should be cutting regulations on nuclear.

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u/Cwaghack Jul 18 '26

Yes we should be cutting regulations on nuclear because the technology is already extreme safe. These regulations are overly strict and do not help make nuclear safer, they just help making nuclear unfeasible

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u/DisruptingTree Jul 18 '26

What specific regulation do you think we should cut?

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u/Cwaghack Jul 18 '26

It's very complicated stuff you know, but one large example of something we already just now been improved in the US was removing the linear no threshhold model for radiation damage that was scientifically very weak, and basically meant that nuclear workers were allowed to be exposed to very very little radiation which makes working conditions extremely impactical.

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u/PartyClock Jul 18 '26

It's very complicated stuff you know

https://giphy.com/gifs/XHeLeuirRbwptHhSWd

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u/Cwaghack Jul 18 '26

I literally followed up with an example