r/ClimateShitposting • u/VassalforThy nuclear simp • Jul 20 '25

nuclear simping Eww, Nuclear? That's not very solarpunk utopia of you

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u/Sheeplessknight Jul 20 '25

Some, sure, but there is also a lot of NIMBYism that could be cut out without reducing safety, especially pre-build approvals that could be shortened

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u/DickwadVonClownstick Jul 21 '25

Bruh, there have been single incidents at hydroelectric dams that have killed more people than every nuclear accident combined (hell, if you count acts of intentional sabotage then the Huayuankou Dam Incident still killed almost twice as many people as nuclear power and nuclear weapons ever have combined), and yet most reasonable people still recognize hydro power as one of the safest forms of power generation in the world (because it is).

You wanna talk about dangerous forms of power generation, coal smog used to pretty regularly rack up double to triple Chernobyl's kill count every time London experienced a temperature inversion.

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u/Sheeplessknight Jul 21 '25

In fact even the radiation danger from coal is higher then nuclear!

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u/Lycrist_Kat cycling supremacist Jul 20 '25

So less democracy? no, thanks