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> It says, unsurprisingly, that the most land efficient power source is nuclear

Not true if you factor in waste storage and the time to store it

Long after all the nuclear energy has been used making your toast, and long after many cycles of climate change, you will still be storing hi level nuclear waste, and monitoring it.

But who cares about tomorrow? Party on, and let future generations pay!




How does this calculation work?

Take simple chemical pollution, for example with lead - as far as I can tell, it stays around forever and we,ve poisoned vast landscapes with it during mining coal copper for example.

Or take simple industrial waste , say wind turbine blades, they go to landfill, sure they aren’t hurting anyone but there are a lot of them- does it count?


Other causes of pollution (related to lead, coal, copper...) aren't excuses for nuclear pollution.

AFAIK more and more (many even most, nowadays, as it is legally mandatory in many European nations) are recycled.




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