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NNadir

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5. Thank you. I have spent an enormous amount to time wrapping my head...

Mon Apr 7, 2025, 01:49 PM

Apr 7

...around nuclear issues.

I am always amazed to hear from people who know clearly know nothing at all about the topic who nonetheless feel qualified to have extreme reactions, often bordering on hysteria, to it.

As it happens in this case the aggressive assertion of willful ignorance, as is the case in so many issues, causes huge damage to humanity.

Nuclear energy will never be risk free; no energy system is. However compared to all other alternatives it is the lowest risk, by far. No other system of energy can compare to it in terms of safety, reliability, and sustainability.

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Chris Keefer is going ballistic over this. NNadir Apr 5 #1

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This is true. However from my perspective would be to isolate plutonium from used fuel, and make a ternary fuel... NNadir Apr 6 #3

Wow. You know your stuff. I can't compute. applegrove Apr 6 #4

Thank you. I have spent an enormous amount to time wrapping my head... NNadir Apr 7 #5

My worry about it is the waste and how long the rod applegrove Apr 7 #6

Again in term of so called "waste," the superiority of nuclear should be self evident. NNadir Apr 7 #7

Are you AI? applegrove Apr 7 #8

No, I'm quite human, a scientist with an extensive journal here stretching over two decades. NNadir Apr 7 #9

Yes. You are very knowledgeable. I had not thought applegrove Apr 7 #10