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dny6 t1_ivfsw74 wrote

Support building a nuclear power plant(s) in this state

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The_Fritz_X t1_ivhhlrl wrote

THANK YOU!!!!! Especially since we wont have a chernobyl happen since the soviets not only had horrible reactors(RBMKs were fucking jokes and pretty much all the post soviet states other than russia retired theirs) but did the usual soviet practices of bad maintenance+not telling people about problems cause quotas+political interference in fucking everything

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g_rich t1_iviertj wrote

Not going to happen, everyone likes the idea of nuclear but no one wants it in their backyard. The fact is nuclear, especially modern day nuclear power plants, is extremely safe and extensively regulated. Coal actually produces more radiation than a nuclear power plant and if a nuclear power plant put into the environment even a fraction of the radiation that a coal plant does it would be shut down. The perception of nuclear is just too tainted and the investment is so much that we will never see another plant come online in this state. Off shore wind is out best bet, we just need to get grid level storage online to make it reliable.

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