Seeing that they need quite a lot of clean water, which is not widely available everywhere during the entire year in big amounts, especially with these droughts due to climate change.

    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      No shit.

      The solution there is that ideally no human is allowed to make a mistake significant enough to have any impact.

      If Bob the nuclear engineer does something fucking stupid, but there’s an automated failsafe that resolves the problem… was there really that big of a problem?

      This issue is… that stuff gets expensive quick.

    • infinitevalence@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Like burning coal which releases uncontrolled and unmeasured quantities of radiation and heavy metals like Mercury.

      burning of coal are environmentally and biologically toxic elements, such as lead, mercury, nickel, tin, cadmium, antimony, and arsenic, as well as radio isotopes of thorium and strontium.

      https://www.gem.wiki/Heavy_metals_and_coal