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China can. Russia as well. It appears that the secret ingredient is totalitarianism.
by Tade0 4y ago
China can. Russia as well. It appears that the secret ingredient is totalitarianism.
- KennyBlanken 4y agoChernobyl happened largely because plant admins wanted to please (or were afraid of) their higher-ups. Russia has had numerous secretive incidents in their southern military nuclear production sites, and more recently? Mysterious things like "high winds"... https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/russia-suspected-nuclear-explosion-radiation-chernobyl.html https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/08/russia-suspected... In China? Taishan has been plagued with problems.
- HDThoreaun 4y agoNo, China can not build nuclear economically. That's why they're drastically reducing their nuclear goal while they continue to scale up coal and solar.
- dirtyid 4y agoPRC is currently building indigenous nuclear relatively economically which appear to be performing around expectations. What happened / what PRC can't seem to do, like the west, is build _western_ nuclear tech economically. Rollout past decade has been delayed largely due Fukushima reassessement and drama over western nuclear tech (French EPR / US AP1000 technical and political issues & US sanctions / Westinghouse bankruptcy) forcing PRC to switch to domestic tech. Current 14th 5-year plan still aiming for ~180-200 GWe by 2035 with ~150 reactors, which is in line with mid 2010s assessments. What is also happening is PRC scaling up coal and solar, due to geopolitics of rushing energy security and lower renewable costs, but not at the expense of nuclear rollout.
- llsf 4y agoActually the secret ingredient might be more "central planning". Mostly used in socialist/communist countries, but US/UK know how to do it, when the stake is high enough (e.g. war). One could argue that climate change is sort of a war, threatening the national security.