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BOON BANE
Debate Score:5
Arguments:3
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NUCLEAR ENERGY-BOON OR BANE??????

BOON

Side Score: 3
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BANE

Side Score: 2
2 points

Anyone who thinks renewables are able to supply our energy needs knows nearly nothing about the externalised costs of renewables, their massive inefficiencies, how expensive they are or how they affect the environment in other ways. Nuclear power is our ONLY viable, clean and SAFE source of power generation. Other power generation techniques have led to HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of more deaths than nuclear power has. Coal burning releases more radioactive uranium and barium than all the world's nuclear plants EVER have. Hydroelectric is so bad it's not even worth mentioning it. Solar power produces 0,8 kW per square metre and uses massive amounts of rare earth metals (the worst kind in terms of mining)...Wind power is expensive (but quite pleasing to the eye), intermittent and heavily subsidised...People are just afraid of technology they don't understand and clever opportunists in the renewables market are exploiting our fears. Germany is shooting itself in the foot. Their decision is going to have huge financial implications for them. We need MORE nuclear power and we need MORE accountability for firms that run them badly. The technology is not to blame, cutting corners is. But even so there is a much greater risk we face if we eradicate nuclear than there is if we build more. GO NUCLEAR! STUDY AND READ HIPPIES and SHAME ON YOU OPPORTUNISTIC WANNABE ENVIRONMENTALISTS!

Side: BOON
chatturgha(1631) Disputed
2 points

Nuclear power produces waste that is, and will be, toxic and radioactive for tens of millions of years without end.

If you think nuclear energy is clean, think again.

Giving humanity more powerful energy is not worth turning the planet into an inhospitable wasteland.

Side: Bane
1 point

Yeaaaaaah! Tell 'em boss! Nuclear energy has come a long way since the Cold War, and it has improved tenfold at least! The more we take advantage of it, the more advances we'll make and someday we may even discover how to safely produce energy with nuclear fusion rather than fission, which has unlimited potential for energy growth! In a world where no truth has ever been told wholly, why won't people just take the chance and try it.

Side: BOON
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