Nuclear energy is dirty, dangerous, expensive, and unnecessary.

[bananas]

It's time to start phasing out nuclear energy and phasing in renewables.

[cliffordu]

1. Yes, it is..

And, MAYBE, learn to conserve as a nation.....

[diane in sf]

10. Let's be efficient and do way more with less energy and materials.

[girl gone mad]

12. Efficiency and conservation

seem almost like forbidden topics in growth-based economic models.

[robcon]

2. We can hope for technological advances in renewables.

Until then, their contribution to energy needs will be minor.

We should continue to work towards technological advances in nuclear, as well.

[bananas]

5. Renewables are ready now, and advances continue.

Nuclear has a negative learning curve, as the technology advances, it gets more expensive.
That's why South Africa gave up on the advanced Pebble Bed Modular Reactor.

[BrookBrew]

9. Have you ever been there. You can send data faster by bird than internet

they have no infrastructure to support the technology. It is far cheaper to burn dead animals.

Not like they are all renewable.

[madokie]

3. I think so too

and its not something I just woke up thinking yesterday either. Radiation kills just as sure as a bullet only sometimes slower and a more painful death

[ixion]

4. k/r

and further, it's time to move on from burning fossil fuels.

[bananas]

6. Yes. nt

[kristopher]

7. You know, I've heard that before.

I agree.

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[BrookBrew]

8. Just as soon as base load is covered by something other than dead animals

or split atoms then yay, this is real. Until then, it like saying we should end poverty and disease. Sure sounds good, but will not run the HVAC in my home.

[diane in sf]

11. It's mostly dead plants and wide use of the wind and solar tech we have now would cover the baseload

[BrookBrew]

15. I am 100% for agri based renewables..

the problem is base load. The base load can not fluctuate below a set level or stuff starts blacking out.

Wind and solar are great for on demand load.

The real issue is there is no real way to store large amounts of energy for later use.

[marions ghost]

13. Future generations

will say how stupid we were to let it get THIS far.

People can't conceive of 10,000 or 20,000 year storage of anything. But we have a lot of that junk on hand already. Bet they wish they hadn't stored it at Fukushima.

We need to stop these nukes that are in the works.

[midnight]

14. I agree....