88-2: Only Markey, Sanders Oppose 'Expensive, Risky' Nuclear Power Expansion | Common Dreams
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Calling the vote "disappointing," one campaigner warned: "Nuclear is, at best, a waste of resources. At worst, it's a meltdown."
  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
    43·
    5 months ago

    all reactors are built near water and susceptible to some sort of flooding though. i realized that after German Biblis was hit by a flood earlier this month

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      52·
      5 months ago

      So is nearly every coal/gas thermal power plant ever built. Steam turbines need water and cooling, thr type of thermal generation used doesn’t change that.

      • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
        35·
        5 months ago

        the point is: other types of power plants just spill less hazardous materials when destroyed by a flood and don’t have the additional risk of a meltdown.