nuclear

Most of our power generations comes from "make water hot, hot water boils into steam, steam spins magnet"

Nuclear power is just a different source of heat.

We've had this discussion here on lemmy a few days ago: practically all electricity generation is by making turbines spin.

Hydropower means river makes turbine spin. Wind power means wind makes turbine spin. Coal/gas power means combustion makes turbine spin. Nuclear means hot steam makes turbine spin.

However, that doesn't mean that all electricity sources are spinny things.

• solar cells have no mechanically moving parts
• batteries utilize chemical energy directly

to be fair ; its both.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator

Humans only have one good way to turn hot into lightning.

Water is last year’s news. Helium is the new water now.

Spicy rocks make water hot.

Oooh Cherenkov blue!

i mean... This is how most electricity production works.

Project PACER:

If it hasn't been already said: the issue is public perception. If you ask any American in the street what they relate to nuclear power the majority will tell you: Chorynobyl. Even though anyone that's looked up anything knows that technology is leaps ahead of that disaster, that's the fear mongering that everyone jumps to.

The half life of fall-out from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was a couple of decades.

The half life of nuclear waste from powerplants is anywhere from thousands of years to millions of years, depending on the mix of isotopes.

Don't feed the troll. It won't come back, it's too expensive.

fission is bad for us

"sHoW yOUr WoRK!"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runit_Island#Runit_Dome

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_disaster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nuclear_power_accidents_by_country

The first light bulbs ever lit by electricity generated by nuclear power at EBR-1 at Argonne National Laboratory-West, 20 December 1951.

That is a lot of "accidents" for an energy source less than one 80 years old. We only have so many places to store the waste. And the accidents.

I mean, there's barely any difference between the heating of the earth's mantle, i.e. geothermal, to the heating by fission. We are just kind of doing the process manually on the surface of the planet where a tiny mistake will cover it in contamination.