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And their vote counts more than yours because they live in rural districts with lower populations. Smh at "democracy."
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Would like to live next to a plant like that?
It's not about the vapor but about the land it's occupying. It also looks ugly like shit. People will complain bout wind farms destroying the landscape but huge chimneys don't bother them for some reason.
Honestly? Yeah. Well if I didn’t already have my house fully off grid.
Being in proximity to a nuclear power source would help ensure minimal power outages compared to fossil fuels.
So if I had to choose? Yes. However, I took things into my own hands and have a 36kW solar system with 100kWh battery bank powering my property.
YMMV
Aren't those plants noisy? It's a industrial installation. Don't you have constant traffic and noise there? Where I live we don't have nuclear power plants so I don't know. We have this type of plants:
I would definitely prefer solar or wind farms.
I used to live within a certain radius of one, our local school used to stock iodine pills in case of an emergency. Luckily I'm Canadian and we have one of the best nuclear track records full stop so it was never a worry.
Am example of what you're saying is Michigan City, Indiana. It's actually a pretty nice little tourist town. I go every year for the Great Lakes Grand Prix. It's just an excuse to go to the beach and drink some beverages. It has a decent beach (very nice by Great Lakes standards), dunes, a zoo, and a coal and natural gas plant right on the water front... It's such a cool place as long as you don't look in the one direction and see that huge eye sore right next to the beach.
We had a coal plant near where I live that's along the riverfront. Thankfully the government here saw sense and tore the whole thing down and replaced it with the largest solar farm in Canada.
I don't know about you, but I'd be admiring it, thinking of how incredible the amount of clean energy coming from it relative to its tiny waste output is. I wish we had way more nuclear power.
The plant is coal and natural gas, not nuclear.
Oops, I misunderstood. Well, down to the ground it goes!
i don't like nuclear, mostly because of how it creates this highly dangerous waste, that our ancestors will still have trouble with (and thinking about it, is probably mined in a similarly destructive way to coal?), but i got to say that nuclear power plants actually lool fine to me and their vapour is actually quite pretty and scenic imo. ofc i would not want it everywhere, but its fine. i would not base my opinion of nuclear on that.
You mean ~~ancestors~~ *descendants. Also, rest assured! That's not a fear to have: https://www.anl.gov/article/10-myths-about-nuclear-energy