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Instead of accusing people of being ideological and irrational why don't you address all the issues around nuclear? Political stability VS centralization of po
by goodpoint 4y ago
Instead of accusing people of being ideological and irrational why don't you address all the issues around nuclear?
Political stability VS centralization of power is one. Nuclear power is highly centralized and vulnerable to corruption.
And also to war, terrorism and social unrest.
If we are to expect extreme climate and social instability in the next 50 years, it's safer to democratize and localize energy production and storage.
Renewables go in that direction. Nuclear goes in the opposite direction.
- lven 4y agoNew nuclear is decentralizing with micro reactors.
- goodpoint 4y agoExcept it's impossible to safely scale down nuclear to domestic/community/small-town level. Instead renewables and especially solar as well as batteries and geothermal heat storage scale down very well and can build resilient networks. After the horrific blackouts that happened in some countries people on HN should be able to grasp this...
- pfdietz 4y agoUnless microreactors are stacked up at centralized sites to share labor their operating costs are likely to be prohibitive.