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Nuclear also got much, much more expensive than it was in the previous century, making it economically completely unreasonable in the west. Nuclear is also the
by legulere 6y ago
Nuclear also got much, much more expensive than it was in the previous century, making it economically completely unreasonable in the west.
Nuclear is also the only energy source where people get displaced from their homes in thousands of square kilometers in catastrophic events.
- retrac 6y agoDam failures would like a word.
- Dahoon 6y agoYou can live on that land unlike on radioactive wasteland.
- Nimitz14 6y ago> Nuclear also got much, much more expensive than it was in the previous century, making it economically completely unreasonable in the west. Because we stopped building them. Of course costs are going to explode when every time you do it the people on the project are doing it for the first time.
- qayxc 6y agoTo be fair, increased reliability and safety also comes at a cost. But I agree - loss of expertise and lack of economy of scale are a major factor.
- legulere 6y agoNo, the reason is construction costs are rising faster than inflation because construction hard to automate.
- p_l 6y agoYou can automate construction a lot (biggest issue is making sure deliveries are ordered the right way, and that you keep QA). But that requires getting getting the pipelines running instead of doing it once a decade.
- dtech 6y ago> Nuclear is also the only energy source where people get displaced from their homes in thousands of square kilometers in catastrophic events. Luckily displacing thousands of people for hydroelectric energy is fully planned [1] [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-threegorges/thousands-being-moved-from-chinas-three-gorges-again-idUSBRE87L0ZW20120822 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-threegorges/thousan...
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- cbmuser 6y agoThe thing is, displacement is often not necessary as explained by the WHO for the case of the Fukushima accident: > https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/health-consequences-of-fukushima-nuclear-accident https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/health-consequences...
- weaksauce 6y agointeresting. so the average lifetime dosage was on the low end of a CT scan. ~10mSv where a CT scan will be 10-30mSv. and three mile island let off even less to the people in a 10mile radius... ~80µSv.
- lucb1e 6y ago> completely unreasonable in the west So... why did France continue to build fission reactors rather than something else?
- spfzero 6y agoIn the Fukushima case, completely unnecessarily.