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Also, as a more near term issue, say next 1000 years, what happens in case of war? Right now number of nuclear plants are so few that each could be tracked by t

Also, as a more near term issue, say next 1000 years, what happens in case of war? Right now number of nuclear plants are so few that each could be tracked by the world, e.g. Russia getting hold of Chernobyl area was frightening. But if there are 10 times or even 100 times more number of plants in many more countries, some country will use some other's nuclear plant to prove collateral damage, what Iraq did to Kuwait(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuwaiti_oil_fires)

willcipriano 4y ago
For thirty years people have been asking that question, telling us to use "renewables" instead. Renewables aren't getting here fast enough, we can wait another thirty years burning fossil fuels or we can start building nuclear plants now.
- adrianN 4y ago
  Building nuclear plants is really not something that I'd put in the category of "things one can do quickly".
- Kon5ole 4y ago
  Renewables are getting here faster than nuclear. At a fundamental level this is because you can mobilize a lot more manpower building renewables than you can building nuclear. A million homeowners adding solar power versus decade-long nuclear power plant projects. During the past decade in Germany, renewables added more power generation capacity than all the remaining nuclear reactors did combined. That energy is here now, and half of it gave benefits already 5 years ago. So I don't think it's wise to divert money from renewables and storage to build new nuclear, but keeping existing nuclear around for as long as possible is a completely different matter.
  - willcipriano 4y ago
    > That energy is here now Is it? "CO2 emissions per capita in Germany are equivalent to 9.44 tons per person" [0] "CO2 emissions per capita in France are equivalent to 5.13 tons per person" [1] [0]https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/germany-co2-emission https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/germany-co2-emis... & https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=DE https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location... [1]https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/france-co2-emissions/ https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/france-co2-emiss... & https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=FR https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...
varajelle 4y ago
> What happens in case of war? War is horrible, many people die or get displaced. Cities gets destroyed. Nuclear incident are nothing compared to that and not really a concern anymore. I don't know why people bring wars up. And if the ennemy just wanted to destroy, they would just use nuclear or chemical weapons that are meant for this purpose, no need to get to a nuclear powerplant for that.

willcipriano 4y ago

For thirty years people have been asking that question, telling us to use "renewables" instead. Renewables aren't getting here fast enough, we can wait another thirty years burning fossil fuels or we can start building nuclear plants now.

adrianN 4y ago
Building nuclear plants is really not something that I'd put in the category of "things one can do quickly".
Kon5ole 4y ago
Renewables are getting here faster than nuclear. At a fundamental level this is because you can mobilize a lot more manpower building renewables than you can building nuclear. A million homeowners adding solar power versus decade-long nuclear power plant projects. During the past decade in Germany, renewables added more power generation capacity than all the remaining nuclear reactors did combined. That energy is here now, and half of it gave benefits already 5 years ago. So I don't think it's wise to divert money from renewables and storage to build new nuclear, but keeping existing nuclear around for as long as possible is a completely different matter.
- willcipriano 4y ago
  > That energy is here now Is it? "CO2 emissions per capita in Germany are equivalent to 9.44 tons per person" [0] "CO2 emissions per capita in France are equivalent to 5.13 tons per person" [1] [0]https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/germany-co2-emission https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/germany-co2-emis... & https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=DE https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location... [1]https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/france-co2-emissions/ https://www.worldometers.info/co2-emissions/france-co2-emiss... & https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?locations=FR https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?location...

varajelle 4y ago

> What happens in case of war? War is horrible, many people die or get displaced. Cities gets destroyed. Nuclear incident are nothing compared to that and not really a concern anymore. I don't know why people bring wars up. And if the ennemy just wanted to destroy, they would just use nuclear or chemical weapons that are meant for this purpose, no need to get to a nuclear powerplant for that.