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@collectifission worth pointing out that large amounts of the necessary uranium that would need to be mined to keep up with the demands of these new reactors is on indiginous land, with many proposed and existing projects being done without the consent of the lands' respective indiginous inhabitants. American Uranium mines and processing plants have a horrible track record of poisoning rivers and groundwater on indigenous land; the largest nuclear accident in American history happened happened to the Navajo due to complete corporate negligence which was largely swept under the rug, because the US government and corporations know they can get away with these massive accidents so long as it doesnt effect white people 🙄 the Church Rock Uranium spill is *still* responsible for increased cancer rates among Navajo folks almost 50 years later. Like im not necessarily against nuclear power in certain careful contexts, but it can't continue to exist if it's implemention is done in a way that's practically genocidal towards indiginous communities. Currently proposed Uranium mines in the Southwest to keep up with these "modular" reactors are *still* being done without consulting the indiginous communities they will effect, and if history tells us anything it's that these projects *will* taint the rivers and groundwater in an already water-scarce area for highly vulnerable communities. And like what even is the point in all this if most of the produced power is just going towards powering new datacenters to fuel the AI bubble rather than actually going to decarbonize existing power demands for residential and legitimate industial applications? (e.g. Microsoft's deal for exclusive energy rights from the three-mile island plant for datacenter use) #nuclear #nuclearenergy #indigenousrights #genocide #landback #ClimateChange #pollution #antimining #whitesupremacy #colonialism