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		EricE on Feb 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Activists who embrace nuclear power >So you're including mining for solar/wind but not nuclear? We have hundreds of years of "waste" that could be burned before we would ever need to mine anything. Only thing stopping it is a gross combination of politics and fear :p

pfdietz on Feb 27, 2021 [–]

You are excluding the materials of the nuclear power plants themselves, and just considering nuclear waste? What an unfair comparison.

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