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I doubt it, as it is not economically feasible in western countries. It’s a pretty hard sell when you can have renewables for much cheaper. Also the east probl
by legulere 6y ago
I doubt it, as it is not economically feasible in western countries. It’s a pretty hard sell when you can have renewables for much cheaper.
Also the east problem is still not solved and getting enough and cool enough water becomes more and more a problem for reactors.
- Hamuko 6y agoRenewables still need other sources of electricity when there's no wind (or too much wind) or sunlight, since we can't actually store any excess energy generated.
- legulere 6y agoVariable electricity usage is also a problem for nuclear energy, as it fits mostly base load tasks. You are right though, that intermittent renewables are a new sort of problem. But there are also solutions like a super grid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_renewable_energy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_renewable_energy
- orwin 6y agoRenewable are cheaper when you mine, extract, process, transport and cast them with fossile fuel. Uranium pump works with electricity, processing is done with electricity too, at least in France, the only thing we still have to solve is transportation, and even if it was still done with fossile fuel, I'm pretty sure you get more MW/h from 1g of fissible uranium than 200g of cadmium and lead, even if you could recycling them for no energy.