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Why should we be dependent on France? Nuclear waste is a boogie man to scare hippies at night, almost 96% of fuel rods can be recycled and fuel rods have a life
by archerx 5y ago
Why should we be dependent on France? Nuclear waste is a boogie man to scare hippies at night, almost 96% of fuel rods can be recycled and fuel rods have a life cycle of 5-10 years while not needing that many to run a reactor. We could be researching and investing in modern nuclear tech that solve these problems until fusion is viable. Also with petrol there was a lot of waste but we learned to process it and turn it into a valuable resource, maybe the same could happen for nuclear.
Hydro while interesting it is awful for the environment.
- nix23 5y ago>Why should we be dependent on France? Because Switzerland is dependent on like everything? The same could be said about steel, food, chips, chemicals, minerals, fertilizer, oils, gas...just about everything, yes we produce stuff but nearly nothing from the ground up, with the exception of Alp-Cheese and Buendnerfleisch ;) >Hydro while interesting it is awful for the environment. Switzerland then must have terrible environmental problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Switzerland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Switzerland high share of hydroelectricity (59.6%)