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OffgridRadio t1_it4z3s3 wrote

No it isn't! Either there are protocols for handling it safely and humans are capable of that, or they aren't! They have proven over and over again that the needs of fat cat capitalists will break that system at every opportunity!

There is waste everywhere and the remnants from the accidents are poisoning all of humanity.

I might be more willing to separate the two if not for Fukushima. Yet again man has proven they will refuse responsibility until a disaster happens.

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skunk_ink t1_it5cfqy wrote

>No it isn't! Either there are protocols for handling it safely and humans are capable of that, or they aren't!

They absolutely are different.

First of all the military industrial complex has very little to no oversight. They are accountable to no one but themselves and it usually takes decades before information is declassified and the world finds out about their crimes. The nuclear power industry on the other hand is heavily regulated and has lots of public oversight. If something goes wrong it is not long before the public knows about it.

In addition to no oversight, the production of fuel for nuclear weapons results in a lot more long lasting radioactive waste like Plutonium-239. Nuclear energy reactors do not. The majority of waste from nuclear reactors has very short half-life with Strontium-90 and Cesium-137 being the longest lasting of the waste which have a half-life of ~30 years. Plutonium-239 on the other hand has a half-life of 24,000 years and the greatest quantities of it comes from the production of nuclear weapons.

In addition to all of this, most of the high-level waste (other than spent fuel) generated over the last 35 years has come from reprocessing fuel from government-owned plutonium production reactors and from naval, research and test reactors. A small amount of liquid high-level waste was generated from reprocessing commercial power reactor fuel in the 1960s and early 1970s. There is no commercial reprocessing of nuclear power fuel in the United States at present; almost all existing commercial high-level waste is unreprocessed spent fuel.

>There is waste everywhere and the remnants from the accidents are poisoning all of humanity.

No, radiation is not poisoning all of humanity. Unlike other things such as the burning of fossil fuels, nuclear waste can be contained to one area and properly disposed of underground.

>I might be more willing to separate the two if not for Fukushima.

You know the majority of the land around Fukushima is already safe to inhabit, right? It is only the plant itself and the area directly surrounding the plant which is still dangerous. In addition to this, not a single death was caused by radiation. Hell even the majority of Chernobyl has less radiation that the majority of popular beaches around the world.

Please do more research into this before continuing to chime in. Your opinions on the subject are grossly mislead.

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