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[–] 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

@PugJesus it's not bad and back then it was for some regions the best source of green energy. But now other green energies are cheaper. It does not make sense to build a new reactor, and the maintenance cost of old reactors should also be considered. In case of France it was catastrophic since all of the sudden many reactors had to be maintained and it had to buy electricity from it's neighbors.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 6 months ago

    Oh, yeah, I agree entirely. I'm all for keeping current nuclear reactors open, since every plant operating is one big chunk of fossil fuels taken out of the equation, but the time for building new nuclear power plants is... pretty much over. Renewables have advanced too far and too quickly for new nuclear reactors to be viable, barring the "Always 20 years away" dream of viable fusion reactors.

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