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South Korea’s artificial Sun ran for 102 seconds and it could change the future of energy (timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Solar actually overtook nuclear as least-killy-per-gigawatt about a year (maybe even two, now) ago, although obviously killing people isn't the only bad thing a system of power generation can do.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    It's not hard to overtake nuclear when we're shutting nuclear down. Thankfully that trend is reversing, because if we had a full nuclear build out, we wouldn't really need anything else.

    Especially SMRs, those are quite amazing, well, amazing for something that just heats water to make steam to drive a turbine.

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