Comment on It works better if you put it in your mouth first.

danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Emi@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I don’t know history of uranium very much but wasn’t it first used to paint ceramics and later radium for glowing watches? Uranium bombs were made later probably after it was used to generate power. But I wonder what our world would look like if there was not as much scare of nuclear power. Perhaps bit like fallouts world? We still have some time left to 23rd October 2077 thankfully.

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  • _stranger_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The first man made reactor (there’s an extinct naturally occurring one) was created as part of the Manhattan project to create the first bombs. So we really did speed run the tech tree for bomb on that one. The first nuclear power plant was in 1951.

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  • BillyClark@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    First use: glowing paint
    Second use: cancer

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    • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s just the first use again

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    if there was not as much scare of nuclear power.

    I was pro nuclear until solar became cheaper than nuclear but I think if there was less scare about nuclear, there would have been more Chernobyls. That happened because of thinking it’s completely safe.

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    • MrQuallzin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Chernobyl happened through the incompetence of leadership, not because they thought it was “completely safe”.

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      • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It’s a good thing leadership incompetence is something that only ever happens once

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      • SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Incompetence AND overconfidence, cause those reactors were the latest generation and considered completely safe.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I was pro-nuclear until Georgia Power stuck me with the bill for Plant Vogtle 3 and 4.

      (Or rather, I was pro-nuclear until shortly after construction began on a 7-year plan that ultimately took 15 years, when it started to become clear that gross incompetence and corruption was going to make it an expensive debacle.)

      Nuclear power from Vogtle 3 and 4 costs 16¢ per kWh (according to the linked document), by the way, compared to less than 0.1¢ per kWh expected by OP’s comic.

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  • Railing5132@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The watches were radium, not uranium.

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• Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not really. It’s not economical and never has been. Civilian use of nuclear energy has only ever been a cover for nuclear arms development.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    people down voting you haven’t considered the cost of dealing with the waste. Consider how long and expensive Hanford Washington is and how much damage it’s done to the environment around it. Then there’s Fukushima Japan. The damage will be dealt with for a 1000 years. And the reactors that don’t break still have so many spent rods and other waste that can’t just be thrown away. The best idea was to store it in the bottom of old mines but nobody wants it shipped over their backyard to get it there. It’s a dead end.

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• drolex@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That world, that wonderful utopic world… we could weaponize it!

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