sv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square667fedilinkarrow-up12.16Karrow-down1128
arrow-up12.03Karrow-down1external-linkYoung climate activist tells Greenpeace to drop ‘old-fashioned’ anti-nuclear stancewww.theguardian.comsv1sjp@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square667fedilink
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up89arrow-down7·1 year agoI live less than 2 miles from the last remaining coal power station in England. I would much rather have nuclear instead of a chimney chucking god knows what into the air (and subsequently into me) for my entire life.
minus-squareJustCopyingOthers@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoI lived less than 2 miles from a coal power station (until they pulled it down). By the owners own admission, when it was running, it released about 60kg of radioactive material a year from stuff that was in the coal.
minus-squareuid0gid0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoIt’s called fly ash and releases more radioactivity into the environment than a nuclear power plant producing the save amount of electricity. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
minus-squarezik@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down9·1 year agoJust because coal is bad doesn’t mean that nuclear isn’t bad though.
I live less than 2 miles from the last remaining coal power station in England.
I would much rather have nuclear instead of a chimney chucking god knows what into the air (and subsequently into me) for my entire life.
I lived less than 2 miles from a coal power station (until they pulled it down). By the owners own admission, when it was running, it released about 60kg of radioactive material a year from stuff that was in the coal.
It’s called fly ash and releases more radioactivity into the environment than a nuclear power plant producing the save amount of electricity. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
Just because coal is bad doesn’t mean that nuclear isn’t bad though.