What Would a Nuke do to Your City?

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solar power can technically power a country, but it requires massive infrastructure, significant land area, and advanced energy storage (batteries) to manage intermittency. While providing 100% of a nation's energy exclusively via solar is challenging due to nighttime and weather constraints, solar is rapidly becoming a dominant energy source, with countries like China generating a quarter of their electricity from wind and solar.
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But NUclear is far more reliable and does not take half the land of a country to power the other half.
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But it can destroy most of your country in case of a nuclear disaster.
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If your country is the size of Monaco then yes
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There are plenty of countries the size of Monaco.
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Sure but they aren’t using so much of their land for a nuclear reactor
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A nuclear disaster can spread across countries.
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But it hasn’t yet, and has gotten safer in the last 15 years
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Because countries like Germany stopped going nuclear.
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But the biggest countries havent
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But the biggest countries havent

A breakdown of key countries that have historically reduced or phased out nuclear power includes:Germany: Confirmed its total exit from nuclear energy by permanently shutting down its last three reactors in April 2023, completely ending its decades-long atomic program.Japan: Dramatically scaled back its reliance after the 2011 disaster, when massive public backlash and safety fears caused the temporary shutdown of all operational reactors. While the country is slowly restarting some reactors to aid with energy security, its share of nuclear power remains a fraction of what it was historically.Taiwan: Has an official non-nuclear homeland policy. The government is actively executing a phase-out, with the last remaining operational reactors slated for complete decommissioning as they age.Switzerland: Passed a national Energy Strategy that bans the construction of new nuclear power plants and mandates the gradual decommissioning of existing reactors once they reach the end of their operational lifespans.Spain: Operates a diminishing fleet of reactors and has a stated political timeline to completely phase out nuclear power production between 2027 and 2035.Mexico: Sidelined plans for building additional reactors and shifted its infrastructure focus toward natural gas-fired plants.
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The superpowers haven’t is what i mean
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America wants Iran to reduce its nuclear ambition.
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Nuclear weapon ambition
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Trump says Iran going nuclear would be a threat to the world.
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It would,
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So nuclear is dangerous for mankind.
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Nuclear weapons are 
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That is why Solar energy is so popular.
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but not efficient enough
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Nuclear is most efficient in killing.
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8.4 million people per year would say otherwise
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  • Destructive Power per Unit: Nuclear weapons are the most powerful weapons ever created. A single modern warhead can release more explosive energy in a fraction of a second than all conventional weapons used during World War II combined [10, 11].
  • Mass Casualties: A single nuclear weapon can obliterate an entire city, potentially killing millions instantly through heat, blast, and radiation, with millions more following due to fallout and long-term health effects [6, 7, 19].
  • The "Ultimate Deterrent": Paradoxically, some argue their "efficiency" lies in not being used. The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) on Wikipedia suggests that the threat of total annihilation has prevented direct major-power conflicts for decades [5, 20]. [12345]

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    @Shila
    That’s nuclear weapons, not reactors
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    Anything nuclear is dangerous and radioactive.
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    Reactors can be dangerous, but they are the safest reactors to work at statistically with the least injuries and deaths, with very strict worker safety regulations that are efficient enough

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    There have been 2 major (Level 7) nuclear reactor disasters in human history. Both events—Chernobyl and Fukushima—are the only incidents ever to reach the highest rating on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES)
    They took place within a 25 year of each other. 1986 and 2011.
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    @Shila
    Correct, there have been 2,800 fossil fuel accidents that take the lives of 8.4 million people per year. Nuclear is more efficient and safer than fossil, while alternatives like solar or wind aren’t efficient because they only retain 7% of the energy
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    Those deaths are caused by air pollution caused by burning fossil fuel  in cars which nuclear reactors cannot replace.
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    Those deaths are caused by unsafe work environments and accidents