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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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medlazik ◴[12 Sep 25 19:03 UTC] No.45225462[source]▶
Uranium mining isn't clean at all. Between Greenpeace (full of business school hacks) and lobby pressured EU courts, there's a middle ground.
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acidburnNSA ◴[12 Sep 25 19:15 UTC] No.45225589[source]▶
What do you mean? Modern in situ uranium mining is one of the lowest impact mining of resources we have. It's not perfectly clean, but it's pretty darn good.
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medlazik ◴[12 Sep 25 19:22 UTC] No.45225667[source]▶
>What do you mean?

I mean it's not clean

>one of the lowest impact mining of resources we have

Not the point. It's not clean, it shouldn't be called clean end of the story.

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alexey-salmin ◴[12 Sep 25 19:32 UTC] No.45225768[source]▶
Do you think rare earth minerals for batteries and photovoltaics grow on trees?
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1. pfdietz ◴[12 Sep 25 23:22 UTC] No.45227861[source]▶
Photovoltaics don't use rare earth minerals (and Li-ion batteries only use yttrium in one particular variety of LFP cells.)