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☢️ Why you should go nuclear

Let’s clear up something here real quick: Nuclear energy is a very clean, very safe energy source.

Just look below at how many more deaths have happened due to air pollution from dirty coal plants than nuclear plants:

And nuclear energy is so clean that if we took all the nuclear waste produced by the U.S. nuclear energy industry in more than 50 years of operation, the waste would only cover the length of a single football field and go less than 10 yards deep.

So why do most countries still use coal and natural gas instead of nuclear, like France, which gets nearly 70% of its electricity from nuclear energy?

Because people got very scared from highly publicized, very rare nuclear plant accidents.

Like the tweet above references — in 1986, a series of preventable accidents led to the explosion of a nuclear plant reactor in the city of Chernobyl, Ukraine.

It’s estimated that 28 people died during the accident. This was terrible.

And if you take the most extreme estimate of deaths years later due to Chernobyl, you get a figure of up to 60,000.

However (and this is big), a new study cited in the tweet above takes a moderate estimate of how many people died from air pollution as a result of NOT building more nuclear plants only following the Chernobyl accident.

The moderate estimate is calculated to be ~4 million deaths.

These people died from air pollution caused by dirty coal and oil plants that ended up replacing nuclear plants that should have been built.

Remember — this is just the political reaction to Chernobyl.

The final nail in the coffin for nuclear plant development looks like it was right after the Fukushima accident in 2011.

What’s WILD is that the Fukushima incident “was deadly not because anyone died in the accident but because the post-Fukushima nuclear shutdown caused more Japanese people to freeze to death to conserve energy.”

So, where does the world stand today on nuclear energy? Surprisingly, lots of good news!

Even though Germany and Switzerland decided to shut down their nuclear plants in the last few years, look at these headlines on the growth of nuclear energy around the world:

Tbh, the future looks positive for nuclear energy.

• Most Americans support building nuclear plants

• Many U.S. states are ending their ban on nuclear energy

• The U.S. government is making it easier and faster to build nuclear plants by cutting through useless red tape

• China, the world’s largest polluter, not only managed to lower its emissions last year (by rolling out so much solar and wind energy), but also plans to build 150 new nuclear reactors.

• America and China are also racing to invent nuclear fusion and commercialize it

Maybe one day we’ll accomplish President Nixon’s “Project Independence” — his dream was to build 1,000 nuclear plants in the U.S.!

If Nixon got his way in the 70s (with nuclear, unrelated from his crazy behavior), we would’ve freed ourselves from dirty energy and met 200% of the U.S.’s energy demand in 2022!

Go nuclear.

Still curious?

• This great post on nuclear energy — who uses it and why it’s great

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