• bacon_pdp@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    You do realize that they made nuclear recycling illegal in the USA right?

    Which is ironic because nuclear waste is 97% pure fuel and the remaining 3% has other uses in medicine or have half-lives measured in minutes/hours or are stable (like gold)

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        7 hours ago

        It’s relevant because the less-resource-efficient oil industry has lobbied to make nuclear power artificially inefficient so that their industry can continue to exist.

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          7 hours ago

          I don’t think anyone is arguing for the oil industry.

          Even if nuclear power plant byproducts were re-used at 100%, this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.

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            7 hours ago

            Solar and wind are nuclear powered. It is just very inefficiently being collected from the massive inefficient fusion reactor in the sky.

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            7 hours ago

            this would still decidedly not make nuclear energy more resource efficient than solar and wind.

            Maybe true only at small scale.