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A fossil-fuel plant seeing nuclear coming... (lemmy.world)
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[–] -4 points 2 months ago (8 children)

There is no nuclear Power plant in the whole world, that’s entirely run by a private corporation. They are all heavily subsidized by the states. And all of those states either have nuclear warheads or want to build some. Nuclear is just too expensive.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, also you have to keep mining and enriching uranium or thorium to keep them running. At least with renewables most of the materials are recyclable so you only have to mine once. Nuclear would have made a great stop gap between fossil fuels and renewables though.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Yeah unfortunately nuclear doesn't make any sense anymore today. It's way too expensive and its not nearly as renewable as you'd think. 20-50 years ago? It should have been something huge.

    At this point solar is so cheap and easy almost everything else looks silly in comparison.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Completely false. Many countries have nuclear power with no nuclear weapons. Most of Europe, much of Asia. Africa is about to build many nuclear power plants too.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago

    I concede the nuclear warheads part. Still true fir a lot of countries tho.

    The fun thing about smr is that investors are fleeing and the start ups are going bancrupt. Additionally when the nuclear power plants were initially developed they had to upscale the to high size because the big overhead of maintenance, safety measures and poor yield from heat power coupling only gives a small net power output. So to make it work they had to make it big. Now they try to make it small again. Apart from some niche use they won’t make a big difference.

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