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Nuclear in my backyard: A Nebraska utility is skirting the public backlash that plagues wind and solar (grist.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz to c/usa@midwest.social

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I live in such a willfully stupid country.

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[–] Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Awesome, its about time we move past that old specter of fear and misunderstanding around nuclea power. One accident in 40 years with no injuries and America was like "nah, lets just burn millions of tons of coal, destroy the planet, get cancer, and die".

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago

Ok... but can we also NOT tolerate delusional beliefs based on no hard evidence that alternative energy sources such as wind and solar aren't cost effective solutions at scale?