Elon Musk Says Shutting Down Nuclear Power Plants is ‘Anti-Human’ and ‘Insane’ For National Security

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world and CEO of Tesla, said that shutting down nuclear power plants is ‘insane’ and called environmentalists ‘anti-human.’

Musk tweeted about nuclear energy last week, saying, “Countries should be increasing nuclear power generation! It is insane from a national security standpoint & bad for the environment to shut them down.”

A Twitter user replied, “Nuclear is clean, efficient, and could replace fossil fuels entirely if it was embraced. It’s not, because so-called environmentalists aren’t pro clean energy, they are anti-human.”

To which Musk said, “Some are indeed sadly anti-human.”

Nuclear energy is not a great source of renewable energy because of its safety concerns and its link to huge disasters like Chernobyl and Fukushima.

Musk has said that population collapse is a bigger threat to humanity than global warming and has been vocal about nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Musk told Insider that he believes shutting down plants is “total madness,” and we need to rely on this until other sources like solar can become more reliable.

Source: Insider News/Youtube

In its most basic definition, a nuclear power plant is an extremely sophisticated kettle used to boil water. The boiling water produces steam that drives a turbine that runs a generator, which in turn produces electricity.

“Proponents of nuclear energy who claim that running a nuclear power plant produces no greenhouse gases neglect to acknowledge the most fundamental part of running an atomic plant: its fuel. And the entire process of acquiring, milling, enriching, and utilizing that fuel, and then managing, reprocessing, storing, or disposing of that fuel — called the nuclear fuel cycle — requires substantial fossil fuel and produces tons of deadly radioactive waste. The nuclear fuel cycle poses a risk to those who work in it at every step of the cycle,” Joseph Keon, author of Whitewash, wrote for One Green Planet.

The fuel, uranium, is toxic and not renewable. This means there is a large expenditure on fossil fuels to mine, mill, and enrich. Mining uranium is not only dangerous for the workers but is horrible for the environment.

Recently, Japan has been receiving major pushback as nuclear regulations approved a plan to release water from nuclear power plants into the waterways. This decision will affect the marine environment and the public health of the entire world. Nuclear energy is not the way to go!

Sign this petition to stop the Japanese government from dumping radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean!

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