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p6one6 t1_jda8i2g wrote

Reply to comment by GRADIUSIC_CYBER in Maine's Energy future by mainething

Nuclear power in Maine is unlikely for the next decade or two due to an older generation that fears radioactive waste. While the storage can take minimal space and secure, there's a desire for other sources that might create more pollution and hazard waste that will eventually need to be taken care of. But the pollution is not expected to be an issue far beyond our time. The other side of it is the generation(supply) industry is deregulated in Maine which makes nuclear susceptible to risk when natural gas prices go low and take away the demand for the more stable nuclear supply. Nuclear is a source you want to keep running constantly and Maine's setup does not promote that.

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oldncrusty68 t1_jdahl4a wrote

It might be when the government threatened to turn lake region into a nuclear waste dump that turned us off from “clean” nuclear energy.

https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/26/world/maine-saying-no-to-us-nuclear-waste-plan.html

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GRADIUSIC_CYBER t1_jdakw9h wrote

nuclear just has bad messaging imo.

I mean, we literally are driving tanker trucks all over New England to fill people's fuel oil tanks. I think people are just afraid of the unknown / outside entities / change. So instead we'll just keep spending a shit ton on heating and electricity.

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Fireonpoopdick t1_jdb2byg wrote

Once again it is the old and ignorant that keep the young and bright from making the world better, from even trying, they are so old and afraid of everything they don't want to fund the next generation to build the future, they just want to build their little castles and hold onto what little wealth they have for dear life.

It just seems like if we had invested in manufacturing of renewables a decade or two ago we could be the worlds leader again as a country, not that we did a great job last time but we did make some progress, I just don't get why everyone who's older is now so afraid to move forward and build a future their children, it has felt like my whole life the older generations gave up in like the 70s and then just ran off 50s nostalgia since the 80s, and now it's just nothing but fear and confusion.

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