• silver13@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Sure, let’s pay private corporation billions in subsidies by handling their waste and have more centralisied and expensive energy production. Oh and trade dependencies due to uranium

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      1 year ago

      The most recent nuclear reactor built in the US bankrupted Westinghouse and is set to raise utility rates. Oh, and it’s $17 billion over budget and 7 years late.

      • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Yep. Yet, Climate scientists still believe that we need to rely on a combination of nuclear and renewable energy in order to combat climate change. This tells me we’re bad at it, and we need to get better at building and maintaining nuclear plants.

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          Nuclear solves one of the biggest issues with renewables because the energy output can be adjusted.

          This in turn means that you need less energy storage capacity in order to supplant existing technologies.

          Honestly I’m just happy we’re moving away from fossil fuels.

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            Nuclear is a great supplement to wind and solar PV.

            Especially when the share of renewables get close to 100%.

            Going from 85-90% to 100% imply to almost double the capacity of renewables energy available, even with batteries and thermal power stations as a backup.

            On the other hand having 10-15% of nuclear really helps to stabilize the grid and lower the need to oversize the renewables power production.