biber@feddit.detoTechnology@lemmy.world•China starts up world's first fourth-generation nuclear reactorEnglish
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11 months agoDepends. Right now it isnt really that impressive. Bit questionable to build new nuclear power imho.
Just given that other power sources are so much cheaper.
Then there is also the controversy of explicit and implicit subsidies. For instance here: https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2019-09/nuclear_subsidies_summary.pdf
a report that shows historically the subsidies were enormous. Right now it seems a bit tricky to estimate - but I haven’t read the report in detail.
Edit: sorry wanted to answer @qooqie
Plenty of reasons e.g. environmental, injuries/accidents. Maybe I missed a /s though…