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I'd love to know what cost they have put for 100k of storage of nuclear waste. Talk about intergenerational debt. Surely once storage costs are factored into nu

I'd love to know what cost they have put for 100k of storage of nuclear waste. Talk about intergenerational debt. Surely once storage costs are factored into nuclear energy, renewables are much much more cost effective, without all the risks of nuclear waste spilling out at some point in the next 100k years?!?!

lm28469 5y ago
> renewables are much much more cost effective It's not a cost issue, it's an "intermittent and non storable" issue. We don't need theories just look at Germany right now... Their last two nuclear reactors (max output 4GW) often produce more than their entire sun+wind system (max output 122GW) https://mobile.twitter.com/fmbreon/status/1480589479714959363 https://mobile.twitter.com/fmbreon/status/148058947971495936...
- pydry 5y ago
  They also have 6 GW of pumped water storage and interconnects to countries with 20GW more, with 8TWh of storage in total. https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/germany https://www.hydropower.org/country-profiles/germany