If you take into account every nuclear related death and even include potential/indirect ones from radiation exposure (cancer) it’s still killed less people than just the physical extraction of fossil fuels. That’s not even getting into the potential/indirect deaths caused by the burning of the fuels/pollution.
Not to mention modern day reactors are incredibly safe. Thorium reactors are pretty cool
The propaganda around nuclear energy is insane
If every Nation capable switched to nuclear power in the 50s we wouldn’t be nearly as fucked as we are today.
Nuclear is insanely efficient and produces relatively little waste compared to the energy it produces.
Oil companies put a lot of money into making you believe its dirty and unsafe
Every time I learn something new about ai it gets just a little bit worse
It’s just the ai overview is very prone to error. Not a great teaching tool. Wikipedia is generally better sourced than the ai overview.
This one isn’t horrible, but you can see in the top right corner one of the sources used was facebook
Not the ai overview
I know people thag commute 30+ miles a day. Don’t know if an e-bike will fix that.
All I hear is a lot of bad logic. The worst nuclear incidents took place over 30 years ago. The closest we’ve seen to those in more recent times required a tsunami to hit the reactor and even then there wasn’t all that much damage.
Modern style plants are incredibly safe.
Of course today solar and wind work and are cheaper. But these unfounded fears about nuclear have held us back
And yes there is a risk a very small risk. Fossil fuels have and continue to kill more people by every possible measure, but this was preferable to nuclear. Why? The answer is simple it’s preferable to have a poor person crushed or end their life choking to death due to the lung damage then it is to have a miniscule risk that you may face the repercussions of your consumption. Dying for your electricity is for poor people