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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 16 Aug 2017

    Renewables Can't Save the Planet. Only Nuclear Canhttp://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/8/16/renewables-cant-save-the-planet-only-nuclear-can …

    1:29 PM - 16 Aug 2017
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      2. afip-ansEsclavo 🍋‏ @AfipAnsEsclavo 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Nuclear has astronomic costs, and there is no technical solution yet for the problem of nuclear waste, a liability for future generations

        2 replies 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @AfipAnsEsclavo @sapinker

        Actually, only nuclear has solved the waste problem. No other way of making electricity has done that

        2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
      4. afip-ansEsclavo 🍋‏ @AfipAnsEsclavo 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        Google Yucca Mountain.Decades wondering how to safely store used fuel radioactive for x000000 years. Finland starting 1st experiment

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      5. J.A. Puntanen‏ @puntanenyahoo 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @AfipAnsEsclavo @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        The Onkalo is not a "started experiment", it will commence for real in 2020.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. afip-ansEsclavo 🍋‏ @AfipAnsEsclavo 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @puntanenyahoo @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        You are right. By experiment I meant that to measure its success or failure we have to wait a couple of millenia

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. J.A. Puntanen‏ @puntanenyahoo 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @AfipAnsEsclavo @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        Or just trust the science. But here we do not, right?

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Useful Design‏ @usefulDesign 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @puntanenyahoo @AfipAnsEsclavo and

        Its not science that's in question, it's human nature, corruption, short cuts, cost saving, skimping, unforeseen events, technological fails

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      9. J.A. Puntanen‏ @puntanenyahoo 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @usefulDesign @AfipAnsEsclavo and

        You hardly see those "corrupt people" 400 meters below surface, and the process itself is of course verified to the last detail.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      10. End of conversation
      1. New conversation
      2. Stephen McIntyre‏ @ClimateAudit 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker

        Russia hate is so extreme in US that Foreign Affairs celebrates coal plants in VietNam instead of zero-CO2 nuclear http://www.environmentalprogress.org/big-news/2017/8/3/are-we-really-going-to-allow-nuclear-domination-by-russia …pic.twitter.com/aRkoZtQLuU

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      3. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD 16 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ClimateAudit @sapinker

        that's a silly and deliberate misreading of that paragraph

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Stephen McIntyre‏ @ClimateAudit 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        even though I regard you as reasonable (and my views on nuclear are similar to yours) , your article is framed to appeal to US Russophobiapic.twitter.com/Wx7cnX8qqR

        3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ClimateAudit @sapinker

        If you're not worried by Putin I can't help you

        3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. Stephen McIntyre‏ @ClimateAudit 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        I'm more worried about US regime change wars all over the world. Insane that Obama destabilized Libya and Syria after Iraq experience

        1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
      7. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ClimateAudit @sapinker

        I agree.

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      8. Stephen McIntyre‏ @ClimateAudit 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker

        we probably agree on a lot of things. Pielke Jr and I are on very good terms for a long time.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      9. End of conversation
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      2. GWPF‏ @thegwpfcom 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @sapinker @pwrhungry

        @ShellenbergerMD apocalyptic language is a bad strategy to promote nuclear energy. It failed in Europe. Nuclear has to become competitive.

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      3. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD 17 Aug 2017
        Replying to @thegwpfcom @sapinker @pwrhungry

        I don't use apocalyptic language

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      4. GWPF‏ @thegwpfcom 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker @pwrhungry

        You say only nuclear energy 'can save the planet'. Is that what you really think?

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Mike Shellenberger‏Verified account @ShellenbergerMD 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @thegwpfcom @sapinker @pwrhungry

        Oh FFS grow up and troll somebody who cares And consider finding the courage to identify yourself rather than hiding behind some NGO

        2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      6. GWPF‏ @thegwpfcom 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @ShellenbergerMD @sapinker @pwrhungry

        Mike, I run @thegwpfcom. We are sceptical of alarmist claims and of lobbying for energy subsidies. No need to be rude.

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      7. davey 123‏ @davey1233 18 Aug 2017
        Replying to @thegwpfcom @ShellenbergerMD and

        Disappointing @thegwpfcom want to create enemies in the nuclear industry & with environmental groups who take realtisic & scientific stance

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