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Nuclear Disasters = DFF #392
🕑 Added 2022-05-06 17:00:10 +0000 UTCThe livestream has ended and the episode is now available for all patrons. https://youtu.be/6R6wDoxXyf4
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Phoebe Ophie
How many acres of land are completely uninhabitable for the foreseeable future due to wind and solar?
Gregory Darnell
When was the last time a wind or solar plant made an entire area completely uninhabitable?
Jaron Talotta
Even including Chernobyl, nuclear power has less deaths than wind and solar. To be against it is essentially a religious position. No matter what the data says, your dogma trumps all.
J Allen
Ok I'll accept that it's to dangerous but knowing that I now must accept that we are already fucked because there are tons of these things all over the world and we all know they aren't going anywhere.
PixelCrusader
I've always thought it was highly dangerous but completely safe if handled correctly. Turns out, you can't, and the accidents last for longer than the span of the current human civilization. Its terrifying to think about what happens to a planet full of these things that gets hit by a stray asteroid or two.
David
Or the chat is right.
Ian Salyers
At first I thought it was people just wanting to trigger TJ for entertainment value, and it still might be, but I'm coming around the the idea that much of the chat really is just irresponsible suicidal and ignorant. Which is fine.
Jonathan Jones
Get em TJ
DarnChaCha
A rare episode where the chat was in the right, Entertaining but you guys still got some ass backwards views on nuclear energy
Ryan Z
I only live about 40 minutes away from TMI
Barnasuss
Except hindenberg didn't make an entire zone uninhabitable for years. 🤣 You're a dumbass
cyrus
Nuclear power has come a long way since Chernobyl. The choice of which technology is best to generate power for a given time, place, purpose, and available financing is complex. But it seems like you guys aren't ready for any data to convince you that nuclear power can be safe. I understand how much propaganda is spewed by the energy industries. But this conspiracist thinking is particularly unfortunate given that nuclear has unique pros that can make it a logical next step in transitioning away from hydrocarbon fuel based energy, at a time when global heating is a particularly pressing form of environmental degradation. I don't just mean low cost per watt or emissions per watt. There are a lot of unique uses for the byproducts of nuclear power, like life-saving nuclear medicine. You guys should do a deeper dive in comparing energy sources.
Д-SPEC
It is. It has the lowest deaths per kWh of any power source. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-deathprint-a-price-always-paid/?sh=4255b299709b
Д-SPEC
Saying nuclear power is dangerous because of Chernobyl is like saying air travel is dangerous because of the Hindenburg. Just as flying is still the safest form of travel, nuclear is the safest form of power.
steven decke
These nuclear plants will outlive humanity.
Stewart Thompson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPBzj90Su8A
Mazy
I'm sure nobody in these comments has been thoroughly brainwashed by the very same industry and government entities that go out of their way to cover this incidents up.
PESSIMIST PRODUCTIONS
Solar, wind, hydropower, and geothermal exist.
Sam Charles
I have now realized that the use of a dangerously powerful energy source is also the plot of the new doom games and this was probably what they were alluding to when they wrote it.
Usman
Really weird that these guys are anti nuclear when its the only way to produce power besides fossil fuels. Barely anyone dies in most of these nuclear disasters. They keep portraying power plants like theyre nukes.
Usman
I hate you
Ben Martin
Time to join the trigger cycle, I guess. I am a physicist who works with those medical isotopes you mentioned. The pessimists are correct about the inherent dangers of Uranium/Plutonium reactors BUT fission reactors using Thorium (which already exist!) and fusion reactors (still in development) do not have these drawbacks. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but it seems that governments are only interested in building the kind of nuclear plants that can make fuel for weapons.
Carcinogenz
You guys should try doing a dff asmr episode sometime. Maybe critiquing asmr while you whisper? This would most definitely only appeal to me.
Brendon Morrice
These are the scientists who will run your ministry of truth.
Atticus Omundson
#DownWithNetNeutrality
The Beekeeping Bumblebee
I live about 15 miles away from the worst nuclear disaster site on US soil, Rocketdyne’s Santa Susana Field Lab west of Los Angeles… most people don’t know about it, it’s been thoroughly buried in mainstream discussion, numerous lawsuits have been quashed, settled, or are still being litigated. You can look it up though. The facts are there. I’ve had family friends die from cancer due to the site, and we have some of the highest rates of lethal childhood/teen cancer in the country. I highly suggest to everyone wanting to discuss the viability of nuclear power to contrast it with the horrible responsibility of our government bodies and take a seriously loooong pause about whether you think it’s a good idea still with who runs our utilities… It’s a fucking bad idea.
David
And fossil fuels, like coal, release radioactive isotopes, which end up in your body when you breathe them in. But unlike the odd nuclear disaster, it's a constant stream of radiation. Replacing every coal plant with a nuclear power plant would be a massive success for bodily health, even when including the instances and potential for further nuclear meltdowns.
PESSIMIST PRODUCTIONS
Yeah, it definitely wouldn't have been as good if it wasn't live.
DancingQueen
Great episode! Loved the back and forth with chat lmao
Darian James
Oh yay more brain-dead nuclear propaganda safer than any other reliable power source
David
I am more worried about coal plants than a nuclear disaster.
Skeptical Jesus
Nuclear Power is completely safe.... Except when it isn't :p
Maximillion Bongs
Kinda gotta agree with Shoe that nuclear is the only environmentally friendly way to produce power. Simply down to the fact that solar, wind, and hydro are all variable in output and require a backup generator, which in most cases is gas burning. Nuclear is the only solution (other than a dramatic increase in battery technology) to fully rid us of fossil fuel burning.
Butt turd saw sidge
“nUcLeAr iS tHe sAfEsT”
Jonathan M
I've been doing a ton of research on this topic over the past month. Chernobyl, the Devil's Core, the Elephant's Foot and the Kyshtym disaster are terrifying.
