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[John Oneil]

11. I wasn't talking about replacing power plants by charcoal

Hi there,

I eventually found the time to read your post and answer to you.

Your answer is very well detailed, and I must agree that replacing power plants with charcoal is non sense.

But this is not my point, I just wish we could reduce our energy consumption and supply with renewable energy the rest of our needs in electricity. And this is possible, as you ask for scientific content, here you are : https://negawatt.org/en.

This group of seekers explain that France (with its 52 power plants) could use 100% of renewable energy before 2050.

Then, to answer to your concerns, Bateman Equations is great and math rocks but it is theoretic. The truth is we don't really know what impact our nuclear wastes will have within the next 200 000 years ("hi plutonium" gonna say our grand(^1500) children when they will dig in their garden).
Look at what is going on in Russia (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/02/russia-begins-cleaning-up-the-soviets-top-secret-nuclear-waste-dump), it's only about 60 years ago and yet they are struggling to cope with this wastes.

About air pollution, you say fukushima is two day of air pollution. But according to your own paper, fukushima is as well 1/4 of the deaths that nuclear avoid in the world every year. And if you take just Japan alone, which would be fair as it happened here. It corresponds to five years of air pollution. And again, we don't include the deaths and troubles of those who gonna get cancer in the next 30 years or so.

So to some extend I agree with your answer, nuc is a extraordinary power supply. But yet we can't afford to take the risk to use it when we could just reduce our power consumption and implant renewable energies. One day maybe we will master fusion and the nuc industry won't be as corrupted as it is right now and I will then support nuclar energy. But i doubt this day will ever come.

Thank you for the time you took answering to a anti-nuke ignorant like me who "murder" babies when i plug my wind mill.

I wish you a great day,

John