my devious 17th century bavarian dandy of an ex-husband has been trying to turn our child against me during his weekends for sure. every time eckhart gets back from his dad’s he scorns the bluey and ipad games i lay out before him and berates me for not having planted a rose bush for him and the neighborhood children to play clapping games around
Newer designs are even better. For example, a molten salt reactor can be designed so that it physically can’t go into core meltdown. Because the radioactive fuel is dissolved in a molten salt compound, an overheating reactor can simply melt through a barrier, pour into a shielded chamber, and solidify back into a solid form.
The best example uses liquid fluoride salt and radioactive thorium, which is cheaper, more plentiful, and less suited to weapons than uranium.
Have ANY of you played fallout?? No thanks
What an absolute galaxy brain take
“I know this is a nuclear power plant that can’t go into meltdown, but have you not played the game about nuclear weapons destroying the world?”
afhfdssfgds the plot of fallout is that a fossil fuel shortage LED to nuclear war so this is even more of a galaxy brain take.
Has anyone of you heard about Nuclear wastes? They take centuries to degrade. Sure, USA and Russia don’t have to think about it, they can just dump them into siberia or the Nevada desert, but countries like France, UK, Germany, etc.. we have no space for nuclear waste to properly store it for the amount of centuries that it takes for it to become less harmful and who knows if the barrels that store them are not leaking? Nuclear energy is a short term solution to coal. Heck, central and east europe got hit by the nuclear disaster that was fucking chernobyl.
France already gets 80% of their electricity from nuclear power. I think they store the waste in a very deep mine, in rural Finland, far away from people.
Nuclear waste only takes a long time to degrade if it comes from uranium. It’s very inefficient, and 90% of a “spent” fuel rod is still enriched uranium.
Uranium was only used because the government wanted a “dual use” technology that could also be used for nuclear weapons. Thorium is very bad for building bombs, but it’s very efficient in reactors.
Almost all of the thorium is consumed, leaving a small amount of weakly radioactive waste which is easy to contain. It only lasts for 200-300 years.
Some thorium reactors are designed as “waste burners”, which can consume uranium waste and transmute it into weaker elements that last for centuries, not millennia.
when the Wachowskis had a whole plot in Cloud Atlas about a false flag conducted by big oil in which they made a massive nuclear plant only to destroy it, lots of things aligned for me tbh
Funnily enough, coal actually produces more radioactive waste than fission does, for a given amount of power. The further thing is that the coal plant pumps that radioactive waste directly into the atmosphere.
For literally any metric, fission power is superior to all other available approaches, purely by putting out such an absurd amount of power. Even if fission power were a thousand times worse, even if it did actually produce all these negative effects, it would still be better than alternatives by the numbers, because its efficiency is many thousands of times higher. Even compared to other fossil-alternative darlings, like solar and wind, fission power requires significantly less resource and mineral extraction - which might seem counter-intuitive, how can a large power plant that runs off fission fuel require less resources and minerals than a solar panel? But, it makes sense, when you realise that a single fission power station produces as much energy as many, many square kilometers of panels.
This is, also, ignoring developments in fusion power, which is inherently ‘clean-burning’, and generates so much more power than fission that, even if it weren’t, it would already be the best possible option. Nuclear power is the only realistic solution for moving away from fossil fuels - to transition from fossil fuels to non-nuclear green energy, like solar panels and wind turbines, would require a significant increase in mining and resource extraction, to build not just the panels and turbines, but the complicated electrical equipment required for them and for power storage. Nuclear power is, really, the only power source that doesn’t inherently involve the destruction of Earth’s biosphere - because the way that happens isn’t flashy accidents or nuclear wars, as the oil industry might want you to think, it’s a slow and gradual process of resource extraction.
As a conclusion, let’s take three modes of transport as a metaphor: a gas-guzzling SUV, a shiny Tesla, and a passenger train. Everyone knows the SUV is bad, so the debate is over the alternative - and that debate largely gets centred on the electric car, running off a lithium-ion battery, powered by some green solar panels. What is conspicuously absent from the discussion, dismissed out of hand, is the passenger train, which gets its power from overhead lines, which run directly to a fission power station. One of these solutions is realistic, and the other is functionally just a slightly-better continuation of the original problem. The other one is the one that the car companies would rather be arguing with.
really neat how the community labels feature quickly became a way to harass trans people, particularly trans women, instead of a way to warn people about actually mature subject matter
we need to go back to hating tumblr. no more hellsite (affectionate). don’t even think of giving these clowns your money. if i see you with a checkmark next to your name i’m opening fire
*sound of gun cocking* they can be disabled
tumblr’s current business model isn’t profitable and never will be and no amount of scolding from staff blogs or tumblr ad-free pay piggies is gonna fix that. don’t let yourself be guilted into buying merch, badges or ad-free. you’re throwing your money into a bottomless pit while the techbro ghouls running this website laugh about you at their next board meeting while applauding the shmucks coming up with new ideas on how to twitter- or tiktokify the website
“but tumblr needs to make money!!!”
if tumblr really wants its regular user onboard with keeping the website afloat then we should at least demand that they do the bare minimum in keeping the site functional. and right now, they’re not even doing that. every change they’ve made lately has made the website/app worse. i should give my money to tumblr so what—they can make a more intrusive version of tumblr live? remove the chronical dashboard? come up with an even more transphobic way of doing content moderation? yeah, no thanks
