Nuclear Power: Do you think it's safe or not

[turbid bobcat]

I'm doing more data collection to see who thinks nuclear power is safe or not

[heavy tundra]

what is nuclear power?

[turbid bobcat]

in the simplest terms, imagine a ton of radioactive rods all in a grid, with more rods in the middle of them all called "Control Rods". Then put them in circulated water and use the heat generated to boil water to spin a turbine, which in turn makes electricity.

this is massively oversimplified

but that's generally how they work

once a fuel rod is used up, it gets put in a cooling pond for a few years, then transfered to what's known as a Dry Casket with other materials such as Clay and Glass. If they need to move it between areas, they'll do so in specialized containers that have been heavily tested

if you wanna know more you can always look it up on google or something

[heavy tundra]

i think it's bad for water other than that it's good

[wintry vessel]

Nothing is ever 100% safe, especially when we're dealing with technology operated by man (possibility of human error). What must be weighed is the potential risk versus the potential reward and doing everything we can to lessen that risk (PPE, safety protocols, building the facility far away from populated cities, etc.)

Overall, I think with the technology we currently have, nuclear power is a viable option for most countries and fearmongering should be shut down with science

[olive maple]

let me lick the power rock

[heavy tundra]

Nuclear power is the only way the world can go 100 percent clean energy that’s realistic. And it’s far safer than what people make it out to be. Even Chernobyl when it melted down people were still operating the other reactors that weren’t destroyed

The all time deaths are in the low hundreds vs coal where 10k people die every year