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Once your consider the x-axis of time, I think it's clear that nuclear will not help us decarbonise, or at best will be a bit player. If nuclear becomes useful,
by epistasis 3y ago
Once your consider the x-axis of time, I think it's clear that nuclear will not help us decarbonise, or at best will be a bit player. If nuclear becomes useful, it will likely be after we have already solved carbon-free energy systems, and come into play only because it has somehow become cheaper than other terrestrial methods of electricity generation, storage, and distribution.
- andrewinardeer 3y agoThe cost of building reactors is far dwarfed by the cost on the environment and economies over time.
- epistasis 3y agoI don't think there's a super large environmental cost from nuclear reactors... it is an awful lot of steel and concrete. But amortized over typical lifecycles it's not much emissions, even if we don't yet have ways to zero out those steel and carbon emissions. As for "economies" I can't quite understand what you mean by that.