What cherry picking? Carbon intensity takes that into account, it’s normalised data. And the environmental impact includes Fukushima and Chernobyl. It is the most generalised data possible, unlike yours.
But if you do want to cherry pick Fukushima and Chernobyl, which of course are the only things you can cherry pick, since they are very literally the only disasters in 80 years of nuclear power with environmental impact, you should compare them to disasters caused by fossil fuel. If you don’t want to be accused of being biased, that is. The Exxon Valdez alone devastated sea life and ecosystems in an area of 2000 km of coastline (20x times larger than Chernobyl and Fukushima combined!). But then there’s also the Deepwater Horizon spill, and dozens of others more. And that’s just oil spills. Oil, coal and natural gas have their fair share of disasters too. And that’s without counting climate change exacerbated wildfires, hurricanes, and other “natural” disasters. Fossil fuels are in a whole nother level of environmental destruction compared to the other energy sources.
What cherry picking? Carbon intensity takes that into account, it’s normalised data. And the environmental impact includes Fukushima and Chernobyl. It is the most generalised data possible, unlike yours.
But if you do want to cherry pick Fukushima and Chernobyl, which of course are the only things you can cherry pick, since they are very literally the only disasters in 80 years of nuclear power with environmental impact, you should compare them to disasters caused by fossil fuel. If you don’t want to be accused of being biased, that is. The Exxon Valdez alone devastated sea life and ecosystems in an area of 2000 km of coastline (20x times larger than Chernobyl and Fukushima combined!). But then there’s also the Deepwater Horizon spill, and dozens of others more. And that’s just oil spills. Oil, coal and natural gas have their fair share of disasters too. And that’s without counting climate change exacerbated wildfires, hurricanes, and other “natural” disasters. Fossil fuels are in a whole nother level of environmental destruction compared to the other energy sources.
And I would have absolutely zero qualms about storing HLW casks in my backyard, so long as I was paid for having less space to grow my peppers and tomatoes. Kyle Hill has an easily digestible video about this, if you’re interested.