Green energy question
Nuclear power: Good or bad?
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The Tyranny of the Majority View finds minority voices in our responses and displays them as clusters. Size of each point relative to the number of votes. Coloring based on vote on comment Question: Spent nuclear fuel rods are 96% recycleable through enrichment. The United States had banned this practice over nuclear weapon fears. Is the concern justified?
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Pro-Nuclear
Most sources of renewable power are intermittent: Solar only provides power when it's sunny, wind when it's windy, etc. Nuclear is valuable because it can provide base load capacity to the grid at any time.
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Alastair
Good. It kills a lot less people than coal or gas. And only has accidents when they deliberately try to have an accident or royally mess up.
--Alastair
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Spent nuclear fuel rods are 96% recycleable through enrichment. The United States had banned this practice over nuclear weapon fears. Is the concern justified?
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There is a risk that spent nuclear fuel rods can be turned into nuclear weapons.
--menaechmi