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EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy

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1041 points mpweiher | 1 comments | 12 Sep 25 18:18 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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yellowapple ◴[12 Sep 25 18:51 UTC] No.45225313[source]▶
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ben_w ◴[12 Sep 25 19:06 UTC] No.45225487[source]▶
Greenpeace is both halves of the name.

While I agree that nuclear is green, IMO Greenpeace are correct about it not being compatible with the "peace" half: the stuff that makes working reactors is the most difficult part of making a working weapons.

This also means that during the cold war they suspected of being soviet plants.

Those suspicions and yours could both be correct for all I know.

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exabrial ◴[12 Sep 25 19:10 UTC] No.45225541[source]▶
> the stuff that makes working reactors is the most difficult part of making a working weapons

I'm unaware of this to be true. Civilian reactors are hardly-at-all-enirched uranium reactors. Creating highly enriched uranium or plutonium are completely different processes.

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lukan ◴[12 Sep 25 19:17 UTC] No.45225609[source]▶
"Creating highly enriched uranium or plutonium are completely different processes."

Not an expert, but isn't all you basically need to do is running the centrifuges a bit longer?

Breeding plutonium is a different process than enriching uranium, sure, but with enough enriched uran you will have a nuclear bomb.

And a dirty bomb is bad enough and simple to construct as well.

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1. marcosdumay ◴[12 Sep 25 23:09 UTC] No.45227793{3}[source]▶
You need more centrifuges, several times more, but not orders of magnitude more.

And you need nuclear reactors to make plutonium. The weapons you can make with plutonium are qualitatively different from the ones you can make with uranium.