Why HBO’s Chernobyl gets nuclear so wrong

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/06/06/why-hbos-chernobyl-gets-nuclear-so-wrong/

by option • 7 years ago

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option3• 7 years ago

as a personal anecdote: when people in US hear that I grew up near Chernobyl they semi-jokingly assumed: I glow in the dark, have six fingers, have a tail, etc. (of course it is all not true :)

My point is: continued demonizing of nuclear in the West while CO2 levels is at an all time high is a crime against humanity’s future

ecares• 7 years ago

Agreed, Nuclear energy is probably the best/cleanest solution we has as of today.

But really, do you have superpowers?

option3• 7 years ago

sorry, my superpowers are secret

tdy_err• 7 years ago

Something like just 10% of global energy is provided by ~450 nuclear power plants.

NASA conducted a study about how different energy sources impact human health and found that nuclear energy had the least affect on human wellbeing.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

Nuclear research was killed in the 80's. We still use uranium instead of thorium, which not only outputs significantly more power but also cannot be used to creat nuclear weapons. Instead of engineering solutions we draft contractual promises to thwart weapons development.

People once dreamed of a utopia when reactors were first theorized. But, after a string of accidents, we grew too afraid to make anything better than light water reactors (which we almost didn't build at all until the Afghan wars caused oil prices to skyrocket) and we never got there.

option3• 7 years ago

also people tend to ignore that quality of life correlates with energy consumed. We not only need our energy clean, we need much more of it

Why HBO’s Chernobyl gets nuclear so wrong

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