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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_isot0g3 wrote

Reply to comment by Optix334 in Nation’s First Nuclear-Powered Clean Hydrogen Production Announced. The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility by chopchopped

>A nuclear power plant already has 0 carbon output.
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>This is a lie the processes for mining and refining uranium ore and making reactor fuel all require extremely large amounts of energy. Nuclear power plants also are built with large amounts of metal and concrete, which require large amounts of energy to manufacture. Fossil fuels are used for mining and refining uranium ore, and fossil fuels are used when constructing the nuclear
power plant, so the emissions from burning those fuels should be
associated with the electricity that nuclear power plants generate.a lie

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Optix334 t1_ispeh7a wrote

Useless comment. If you're going that far, then there isn't a source of power on earth that meets the green requirements.

Including solar, wind, batteries, etc all of which are more carbon intensive to manufacture at scale, especially factoring in mining and refining base materials, than nuclear power.

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ThisistheInfiniteIs t1_ispj3pu wrote

No, it is not useless, it is pointing out the obvious lie that the nuclear industry keeps promoting that nuclear fission is somehow "carbon free"

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Thrawn89 t1_ispoviw wrote

By your logic solar and wind are not carbon free

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