Isabelle Boemeke

So there are no emissions that happen whenever you're creating electricity with nuclear.

But it's still, you know, even though it's the largest source of clean energy, it's still very far from being our primary source of electricity generation.

This is still fossil fuels like methane gas or coal in the United States specifically.

So methane, whenever we burn it, we don't actually get the same stuff.

Coal is by far the worst, right?

Yeah, sure.

When you burn coal, you get a ton of shit into the atmosphere.

Actually, you even get radioactive ash.

Yes.

There is more radiation in the environment from burning coal than there is from nuclear plants because of the radioactive ash.

And by the way, this is not the reason why coal is bad.

The reason why coal is bad is because of the particulate matter.

So it emits these tiny particles of pollution that we breathe and get lodged into our lungs and they cause a bunch of problems.

This is something that people die from.

This is already causing at least 4 million premature deaths every single year.

Not to go on a tangent, but whenever people say, oh, climate change is not real or it's a hoax or whatever, I always say, OK, even if climate change is not real or a hoax, what about the 4 million premature deaths from burning fossil fuels?

Yeah, exactly.

So like with Chernobyl, 59 confirmed.

And then there's like this projected deaths that maybe are caused later because people got exposed to higher levels of radiation.

And the most credible estimates of that are around 4,000 deaths.