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Another miserable year for nuclear power as renewables surge (reneweconomy.com.au)

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[–] jedibob5@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean, at least it's a form of green energy that's surging instead of fossil fuels.

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[–] GhostPain@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

Big Oil has started funding nuclear. That's an automatic fail.

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[–] vividspecter@aussie.zone 10 points 9 months ago

Classic delay tactic from the fossil fuel industry. Prop up some bullshit alternative that will never happen in order to delay the actual solution.

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