Nuclear Energy Debate

The cluster centers on debates about nuclear power's viability as a clean energy source, including arguments for its adoption versus criticisms over safety, waste, historical accidents, and political opposition from environmental groups.

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Sample Comments

ageofwant May 23, 2022 View on HN

Perhaps adopting nuclear energy is not the only thing I care about ?

anoncake May 10, 2021 View on HN

The question was about nuclear, not fossils.

Extropy_ Nov 22, 2022 View on HN

Would you mind explaining why nuclear is not ideal?

zx8080 Jun 8, 2022 View on HN

It's a false dichotomy. Why intentionally missing nuclear energy from the equasion?

melling Jul 31, 2017 View on HN

Strange, there have been lots of discussions about nuclear on HN and a lot of people here don't like it.e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13234463

giantg2 Dec 28, 2020 View on HN

Use of nuclear could preclude the power issue.

neonsunset Jan 17, 2024 View on HN

Just look at what happened to nuclear energy :)

saagarjha Jul 2, 2021 View on HN

Nuclear isn't the old low-emissions power source.

plemer Jul 6, 2024 View on HN

Why couldn’t nuclear solve anything?

inter_netuser Jul 19, 2021 View on HN

isn't nuclear energy much cleaner?