As far as I'm aware, we don't have any natural deposits of fissonable material in the UK so we'll bot be truly independent. Green energy is what we need for that, we have plenty of wind, waves and sunlight.

[–] Wintermute@lemmy.villa-straylight.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nuclear power is green energy.

[–] NuPNuA@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically yes, it still creates some waste to be dealt with. I guess arguably you have the same with decommissioned turbines, solar panels, etc with other forms.

[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

It's the only form of energy generation that internalizes all of its own costs- including disposing waste and insuring cleanup.

If we forced oil companies to internalize the cost of fracking casualty and wastewater reinjection alone, gas would be $50/gal.

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