Nuclear power

Hey Veeky Forums, what do you think of nuclear power, especially about the apprehension and the green energy shilling surrounding it? It seems like every other form of power source is more or less acceptable, even coal and gas, but when you talk about anything nuclear you're looked at as if you had just shot up an elementary school. Many declare renewable energy sources as better, but is this really true? Please tell me Veeky Forums.

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For the thousandth time, it's a dead meme and stop making these shill threads.

I definitely want to throttle the fucktards in EU parliament, who wanted to divert funding for fusion research into more fucking wind turbines and solar panels.

Nuclear is dangerous and can annihilate entire cities and destroy the world we live in.
#endnukes
#makefucknotwar

This, fucking politicans who actually care about the environment and do not want to glass entire countries by nuclear detonation should be shot, right my fellow redditors?

>nuclear detonation
put a fucking bullet in your head please

Wind turbines and solar panels actually produce power though.

>Hey Veeky Forums, what do you think of nuclear power,

Retarded meme pushed by energy corporation shills to try to maintain their monopoly on energy generation. They fear energy generation decentralisation as we keep building more and more alternative energy capacity.

The thing is, only very few countries have the infrastructure in place to build and maintain fission reactors, today. It makes sense for France to keep generating energy that way, but it doesn't make sense for, say, Hungary to embark on a 30+ year long plan to train nuclear physics and engineers, devise new and safer plants, build them, figure out the fuel cycle from procurement to waste disposal and lay out plans for reactor disassembly. It's a huge expense and not economically realistic. Compare this to simply building an HVDC grid, a solar power plant or a wind farm. Much simpler, much more realistic and much more economically sensible. And you can accomplish such a task in a year.

The way forward is alternative energy en mass everywhere where it is viable and an upgrade of the energy grid to handle long distance power distribution. With a big enough grid you don't even need that much storage capacity because there will always be some place that is generating energy. And we can always have gas peaker plants as backup.

Nuclear energy is not politically or economically viable. It's the hydrogen fuel cell of the EV market. I.e. incumbents trying to retain their monopoly on the market.

>It makes sense for France to keep generating energy that way, but it doesn't make sense for, say, Hungary to embark on a 30+ year long plan to train nuclear physics and engineers, devise new and safer plants, build them, figure out the fuel cycle from procurement to waste disposal and lay out plans for reactor disassembly

Hungary has 4 operational nuclear power plants you twat
And so does every EU country which isn't a fucking energy hispter like Austria who has to buy electricity from Slovak and Czech nuke plants anyway, coalburners like Poland and Italy for some fucking reason doesn't have one either
And reactors are being build in developing nations all around the world with help from countries with long expertise with nuclear power production, mainly Russia.

whoever thinks that you can't live a happy life in pripyat now in 2017 is basically a moron who will never accept nuclear power