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Well... seriously, no industrialised nation plans any significant amount of nuclear nor sees it as a necessary or even a valuable addition to their electricity
by anovikov 2y ago
Well... seriously, no industrialised nation plans any significant amount of nuclear nor sees it as a necessary or even a valuable addition to their electricity mix. Not even China - they are building a bunch of reactors but the amount is negligible compared to the amount solar they are building.
And, nuclear is not dispatchable either, because it can't be regulated, it's either "on" or "off" (and going from "off" to "on" takes several days due to xenon poisoning).
- mpweiher 2y agoYou're not up-to-date. ALL of them do, except for Germany. And now that the consequences of this strategy are bing felt in Germany, opposition is rising. https://www.energy.gov/articles/cop28-countries-launch-declaration-triple-nuclear-energy-capacity-2050-recognizing-key https://www.energy.gov/articles/cop28-countries-launch-decla... And you're wrong about nuclear. Brief intro: http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2021/ph241/lecroy2/ http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2021/ph241/lecroy2/