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Agora – Nuclear Energy: friend or foe to the environment?
Bruno Comby and Frédéric Marillier are both French environmentalists who believe global warming is real, dangerous, and has to be stopped. But Marillier heads the anti-nuclear campaign of Greenpeace France. He advocates renewable energies rather than a nuclear industry that he argues is expensive, dangerous and unreliable. Bruno Comby is president of Environmentalists for Nuclear Energy. He believes nuclear power is needed to help reduce co2 emissions and that global warming poses a bigger threat than nuclear catastrophe. Two different approaches to saving the planet now, in Agora.
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@Bill25cycle
June 1, 2024 at 12:32 pm
I'm disappointed that younger people in general are too dismissive of dangers of Nuclear Power. With the exception of the intrinsically safe Nuclear Battery "hot tub", (with 25 MWe output), no one in the Nuclear Industry seems to want to talk about real dangers.
Incidentally, Belarus Physicists insist the second Chernobyl unit #4 explosion, 4 seconds after the first, was nuclear in nature, releasing one T Joule. No western-style containment building would survive that energy release.
@RavnoUK
June 1, 2024 at 12:32 pm
shut up! that is a lie.. is what the owners of the energy companies want you to believe.. think about 2 things 1) no renovable and limited source of energy = money on it, so dont trust what industry is tell you. 2) 1 single keg of nuclear wasted can destroy 1000 tons of watter and 1 kilometer of normal ground, and can you imagine the whole world working on NE in any aspect?.. what about the waste?
@batukhan
June 1, 2024 at 12:32 pm
Most expensive? Hardly!
Our small eastern-european country (Estonia) needs a new powersource to replace the aging coal solution. We don't have any rivers so hydro is not an option. Solar power is also out, because we don't get much sun. Our alternatives are wind and nuclear.
To get the same amount of reliable electricity from wind turbines, we would need to pay 5x more.
@samann95014
June 1, 2024 at 12:32 pm
nuclear energy is the only hope for ecological disaster!!
@pepenp
June 1, 2024 at 12:32 pm
Bruno is right-nuclear energy is the only solution.