Exclusive: Clean tech startup Fluxnium found a way to tap 50,000 years' worth of nuclear fuel

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• halm@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  clean tech

  nuclear fuel

  Sorry, I know there are various perspectives on how “clean” nuclear power is, but those two just don’t rhyme in my mind. Especially not to the tune of “let’s extract uranium from sea water”.

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  • NightFantom@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The right time for nuclear power was decades ago, which could have offset our current carbon issues by a lot, but alas. Now is the time for solar+wind+batteries, it’s already cheaper in most places and a lot less dangerous if something goes wrong.

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    • halm@leminal.space ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Agreed, I just wanted to preempt any “well akshually, nuclear power is perfectly clean” discussions.

      The “if something goes wrong” is certainly part of my reservations. There’s been more than one example of that happening in my lifetime, and one was too many.

      Another concern is that we have no better idea to dispose of the nuclear waste than burying it really deep. That sounds like a good recipe to have it come back and bite future generations in the ass.

      So yeah, clean and sustainable would mean solar/hydro/wind energy in my mind.

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    • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Funny thing though, if you look at the data, nuclear is safer than wind and solar per kWh in deaths because installers and maintainers keep falling from rooftops and wind turbines.

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    • Ooops@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Don’t let the nuclear cult hear such blasphemic facts.

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  • eyesaremosaics@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Coal plants emit more radioactive particles than nuclear. The amount of waste really is tiny in the bigger picture, far far less than other industries produce, and it’s not that big a deal to store it.

    Nuclear really is a clean industry in every sense , especially when compared against the amount of energy produced. Solar etc etc all have waste products in their manufacturing and disposal , and you need a looootttt of solar panels or wind turbines to match the power output of a nuclear power station.

    The biggest issue with nuclear is cost, which is high compared to other options.

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  • lath@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The reason it’s clean is because in case of failure it will clean out the human population on a larger scale, thus saving the planet.

    lol

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    • k0e3@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Not that I disagree with OP’s point, hasn’t fossil fuels working as intended “cleaned up” more of the human population than all the nuclear powerplant failures?

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