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I'm pretty nuclear, but I don't understand how having nuclear power prevents vulnerability to direct attack? If anything it would concentrate your risks - your
by dgrin91 4mo ago
I'm pretty nuclear, but I don't understand how having nuclear power prevents vulnerability to direct attack? If anything it would concentrate your risks - your energy now comes from fewer, more centralized and more fragile sources
- kubanczyk 4mo ago> I'm pretty nuclear I'm atomic, FWIW. > how having nuclear power prevents vulnerability to direct attack? OP alluded to a well-known bonus capability of nuclear power plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239#Production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium-239#Production
- Moldoteck 4mo agoit's very hard to create plutonium for weapons this way due to parasitic isotopes. Much easier to have distributed enrichment or uranium.
- Moldoteck 4mo agorisks are concentrated with ren too. Where do you think most EU offshore is built? Where are most productive solar units? What you do with gas firming plants. You always have centralization problem at different levels. Prime example - most of Ukraine's ren capacity is either destroyed or conquered because it was in south where weather is better