Double Comments of the Week #178: From Point Particles To The Very First Galaxies Of All
“It’s easy to point to disasters like Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Fukushima, and showcase the highly publicized failures that demonstrate the dangers of nuclear power used irresponsibly, while the potential of using reactor fuel to generate nuclear weapons plays on some of humanity’s greatest fears.
But fear is the great mind-killer when it comes to policy, and reason is the only solution. There are scientific solutions to nuclear energy without the possibility of meltdowns, without the waste problems, and without the nuclear weapons danger. If we cared about our world enough to make it so, we could switch away from fossil fuels and onto nuclear power within a decade. Alas, fear has carried the day up until the present, with far less than 10% of the world’s energy coming from nuclear. This has the potential to change… if we can all agree. Again, I’m not optimistic about that anytime soon, but the world is changing, and that’s a “crisitunity” if there ever was one.”
What do you think about nuclear power? About the point-like nature of quantum particles? About information and entropy? About the end of the Earth? About how scientific inflationary cosmology is? About the new Star Trek series? And about the way people discuss topics they disagree about on the internet with one another?
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