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United States’ Biggest Public Utility Just Doubled Down on Coal, Gas, and Nuclear (www.motherjones.com)

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[+] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

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[–] mrlockthorne@slrpnk.net 0 points 3 months ago

somebody better tell Oklo then. they're spending almost 2B to build one in Oak Ridge lol. also, that 97% comes with a LOT of caveats. regardless, nuclear is such a great base load for the US, and we need to focus on grid supplementation to ease base load operations, anyway.

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