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What are the misconceptions of Nuclear Power? (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Undoubtedly the biggest misconception, from which many others derive, is to lump civil nuclear energy and nuclear weapons together. Although both use the same principle (obtaining energy by nuclear fission), the purposes and consequences of each are very different from each other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I agree.