Submitted by Majrelende in AskRaddle (edited )
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ziq wrote
Humans aren't capable of managing it.
rot wrote
nuclear power as in fission powered steam turbines?
not under anarchism most likely. too resource heavy, too environmentally dangerous, probably requires a hierarchy to run
heckthepolice2 wrote
With monkey wrenches and molotovs
kore wrote
good luck explaining that one to the victims of fallout
heckthepolice2 wrote
Didn't mean it literally in the sense of "we should burn down active nuclear power plants without regard as to the dangers of radiation," just more in the sense of, "we should militantly resist and sabotage attempts to expand and continue the nuclear industry" but yeah I can see how the way I phrased that wasn't great
kore wrote
I think there needs to be a serious response to the question of an environmentally conscious way of dismantling existing nuclear infrastructure. Beyond that, no nuclear pls
celebratedrecluse wrote
Thorium reactors good, Uranium reactors bad
AnarchoSpook wrote (edited )
This can very well change over the long course of human development, but right now I think nuclear power is inextricably linked to centralized management. Putting the environmental impacts aside, I don't even think the infrastructure and logistics can be run directly democratically. Nuclear power plants are basically concentrated energy output facilities. They need to be connected to a huge electricity grid designed to distribute energy from the centres to the peripheries--see the problem here? Another issue being—again, disregarding the very significant environmental consequences—the extraction and processing of nuclear ores, which require their own facilities. These are, if you ask me, breeding grounds for technocratic structures & high specialization of labour.