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I would look at France's history, they are one of the most nuclear centric countries, with (relatively) few major accidents. In general, build a not-fancy ligh
by saboot 7y ago
I would look at France's history, they are one of the most nuclear centric countries, with (relatively) few major accidents.
In general, build a not-fancy light water reactor away from the ocean and major fault lines.
We have the most experience with LWRs, and they are pretty safe except for the impact of major natural disasters.
There are other reactor designs, but we really need more experience with them.
- Krasnol 7y agoYes let's look at France, closing down 14 reactors and investing in renewables: https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron.html https://phys.org/news/2018-11-france-nuclear-reactors-macron... Time and money has ran out for nuclear.
- philwelch 7y agoIt's a beautiful exercise in circular logic you have going here. If time and money have run out for nuclear, it's only because of the anti-nuclear activism people like you have been ignorantly spouting for decades. Your point is less of an argument and more an instance of gloating.
- Krasnol 7y agoThe anti-nuclear activism in France? You got any proof for that anywhere? The money run out because the technology itself is expensive, the waste disposal is expensive, the costs for repairs were skyrocketing for years (not to mention the costs for buying energy from Germany because of the break downs) and the costs for decommissioning are not even priced in. Also, they recently shut down research there too because...you probably guessed it: too expensive. I like it when nuclear fans come in, downvote me and the only comment is full of advertisement phrases and lack of information but somehow it must be about me...
- imtringued 7y agoOk, lets build the modular nuclear reactor designs your international factory is churning out. Surely there must be at least one country on this planet that is doing so? It can't be that every country including china is abandoning nuclear without considering such an obvious design.
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agohttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=canada+small+modular+reactor&t=ffsb&iar=news&ia=news https://duckduckgo.com/?q=canada+small+modular+reactor&t=ffs...