Climate activists are usually very against nuclear energy and I don’t think I understand why. Does anyone know?
Arguments I’m somewhat familiar with:
- sometimes it’s used as a cover for developing nuclear weapons
- nuclear waste is very bad for living things.
What are the main historical moral arguments?
A nuclear reactor needs to be safe 100% of the time. Not 99.99% of the time. Shit needs to be tsunami-proof and idiot-proof and meteor-proof or you risk permanently poisoning a continent. It’s possible to do if you build it inside a mountain or something, but at this point solar is so cheap it no longer makes sense.