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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danc4498@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Could you imagine a world where we first used atomic power for good and not evil?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 13 hours 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.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
That world, that wonderful utopic world… we could weaponize it!
Emi@ani.social 16 hours 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.
BillyClark@piefed.social 15 hours ago
First use: glowing paint
Second use: cancer
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
That’s just the first use again
_stranger_@lemmy.world 15 hours 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.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
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.
MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Chernobyl happened through the incompetence of leadership, not because they thought it was “completely safe”.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s a good thing leadership incompetence is something that only ever happens once
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 14 hours ago
Incompetence AND overconfidence, cause those reactors were the latest generation and considered completely safe.
grue@lemmy.world 10 hours 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.
Railing5132@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The watches were radium, not uranium.