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Emil Jun 29, 2024

r/NuclearPower is taken over by a hostile mod

r/NuclearPower is taken over by a hostile mod - feddit.nl

Kyle Hill, known pro-nuclear science communicator, was banned from the Reddit community r/NuclearPower for his pro-nuclear stance. Turns out the community has been taken over by anti-nuclear mod(s). Posting about this I’ve been banned too 😂 If you remain on Reddit, r/Nuclear is still a valid community. Otherwise we exist of course! Kyle’s post on Threads on this: https://www.threads.net/@sci_phile/post/C8xqujdy2ge/ [https://www.threads.net/@sci_phile/post/C8xqujdy2ge/]

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givesomefucks Jun 29, 2024

I was curious enough to check the link…

Apparently that “expert” has a YouTube channel and kept posting their YouTube links to that sub, when that sub doesn’t want videos as posts, it wants articles.

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Stern Jun 29, 2024

so in other words guy does classic spamming of his own work in contravention of clearly stated sitewide spam policies, gets marked as spammer, and banned from space he spammed.

shocking

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givesomefucks Jun 29, 2024

Yeah, this post did actually clear something up for me though.

Like, I actually know about nuclear energy, some of the worst years of my life was nuclear enginerring school lol. And the last couple years I never understood why so many people online have such strong nuclear opinions but don’t seem to actually know anything about it…

It’s because there’s YouTubers like this.

At least it’s better than incels.

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yesman Jun 29, 2024

have such strong nuclear opinions but don’t seem to actually know anything about it…

I would point out that doubt is the appropriate response when one doesn’t have all the facts. You’re not asking people to trust science, you’re asking people to trust in the institutions that were certain people around Chernobyl and Fukushima were totally safe and trust us bro.

I think you could make a great argument that faith in governments, regulators, and industry to protect public health is the irrational position.

I’m pro nuke, but you shouldn’t dismiss those who fear nuclear tech as irrational and stupid.

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givesomefucks

You’re not asking people to trust science, you’re asking people to trust in the institutions that were certain people around Chernobyl and Fukushima were totally safe and trust us bro

…

So have you even heard of a power coefficient before?

Everyone knew Chernobyl was inherently unsafe, because a positive power coefficient is just an insane design which is why only the Soviets were doing it.

And Fukushima was concurrent earthquakes and a tsunami… Like, you can’t really prepare for everything.

Your heart might be in the right place, but you clearly haven’t actually learned about my learning power.

I’m sure you’ve watched some YouTube videos tho, made by other people who don’t understand nuclear power.