I am interested in hearing your opinions about nuclear power, what you know, if you have any fears, or ideas? Do you know if your country has any nuclear power generation?

  • RmDebArc_5@piefed.zipEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Most things have already been said, but here my personal list:

    • No way to get properly rid of waste jet
    • Quite unreliable (AFAIK one of the French ones only operated half the time it should in 2024)
    • Recourses for it are generally supplied by oppositional nations
    • If they blow up it’s bad, even if they don’t by themselves they might through third party influence
    • Generally positioned by politicians as an excuse to not build renewables, not replace fossil fuels
    • They are a entry point for building nukes, their existence making anti nuke treaties hard to control

    Most importantly: they don’t make financial sense. Renewables provide the cheapest energy and even the required energy storages can compete on the market. The French Court of Auditors published a statement after one of the more recent power plants were openened that basically just: stop building fucking nuclear power plants they cost way to much

    • IamtheMorgz@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      I don’t know anything about the ones in France, but it’s worth noting that the second biggest nuclear power plant in the US is in Phoenix. They work in the heat, you just have to be prepared for that.

      Idk who thought it was a good idea to put a nuclear power plant, which needs water both for cooling and for steam generation, in the middle of a desert, but there totally is one. It uses wastewater from Phoenix for both and has to remove radionuclides twice (going in, it’s from people’s pee!)