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As always with nuclear the questions are cost, time and waste. Until there is an actual breakthrough on (at least) one of those three issues we're going no wher
by LatteLazy 5y ago
As always with nuclear the questions are cost, time and waste. Until there is an actual breakthrough on (at least) one of those three issues we're going no where.
- Tepix 5y agoThere are also safety and corruption. Even in government owned nuclear plants (TEPCO) that don't have to optimize for profits we see these issues.
- fsflover 5y agoThose are non-problems: https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html https://whatisnuclear.com/waste.html and https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html https://whatisnuclear.com/economics.html.
- Tepix 5y agoLet's see, quoting from the second page you linked, under "New builds": Recent new construction of nuclear plants in the west has been fraught with boondoggle. The troubles with the Westinghouse AP1000 have been the most distressing to me personally, since the design was to be the conquering hero of the Nuclear Renaissance I was so excited about in nuclear engineering undergrad back in the mid-2000s. The July 2017 cancellation of the two AP1000s at VC Summer, the astronomical delays and overruns at Plant Vogtle, and the bankruptcy of Westinghouse were all devastating. Non-problems?
- fsflover 5y agoThe reason is cheap coal, not expensiveness of nuclear: If markets valued the low-CO2 nature of nuclear, they’d be doing better
- lm28469 5y agoThis red cube (each side is 16m) represent every nuclear waste generated by france power plants during the last 60 years, it really isn't as hard to process as people make it. It's a problem but not a deal breaker https://twitter.com/laydgeur/status/1433463215321669633/photo/1 https://twitter.com/laydgeur/status/1433463215321669633/phot...