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This is a biased source but seems to make a good case that that study has serious flaws: https://nuclearinnovationalliance.org/we-need-both-nuclear-and-renewab
by DennisP 6y ago
This is a biased source but seems to make a good case that that study has serious flaws:
https://nuclearinnovationalliance.org/we-need-both-nuclear-and-renewables-protect-climate https://nuclearinnovationalliance.org/we-need-both-nuclear-a...
- epistasis 6y agoThat's a weird world view. University of Sussex researchers are "biased" but you link to the Nuclear Innovation Alliance?
- mulmen 6y agoI think the implication is that the Nuclear Innovation Alliance is biased but still making a good point.
- DennisP 6y agoYes, exactly.
- epistasis 6y agoIt would be good to do a bit more work to justify that, then. The NIA blog post doesn't even address the core point of the paper. It looks at a correlation of existing energy by US states, where our nuclear was largely built in the 1970s and 1980s. In contrast, the academic paper looks at what has happened to countries , globally, that have tried to build nuclear since the 1990s. And this is a crucial distinction, because the problem with nuclear is that economies have changed since the 1970s and we have new technologies with different costs. So what if we look at what has happened to US states that, since 1990, have tried to build nuclear versus those that have tried to build renewables? Nuclear has failed since the 1990s in the US, even with construction project with very strong community support and federal regulatory support from the NRC. So when you ask the question that the paper asks: "does building new nuclear or renewables decrease carbon more with modern economies?" We see that the US recapitulates the same correlation that researchers found globally. This huge bias of nuclear proponents, the inability to address the cost issue and very basic construction issues, is far more problematic for nuclear than a corrective analysis of what has happened to grids that have pursued different strategies.
- mulmen 6y agoI’m not making a statement to the validity of DennisP’s comment. Just clarifying the perceived meaning.
- epistasis 6y agoSorry, didn't mean to direct that at you. But since I had been downvoted so much I wanted to at least poke at the general narrative here. I still find it odd is that an unfounded accusation of bias is supported with a link to a clearly biased source, and that's somehow acceptable here.