Moldoteck

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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
global reserves are much higher. Anything above 100ppm can be extracted more or less economically. That's a ton of stuff even without purex/pyroprocessing/fast reactors or seawater Seawater extraction is already comparable to
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It makes sense for Canada. Unless you love using gas for firming of course
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
it also depends on the rate of consumption. On top of that, the burning aint perfect, you also get amplifiers like monoxide or NOx. It also depends on the type of burned wood - some trees grow faster, others slower. If you burn a tree that
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
i still hope it'll be candus even if lot of bwrx supply chain is in Canada
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
I just hope it'll be Candu and not bwrx
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
"Nuclear generates the same power when demand is minimum as when its maximum." - if you look at French RTE data, that's far from true)
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It happens the same as with any other project, even renewables. It's not an attack on the author. What I've written can be easily verified. The author IS the chief editor of the journal the paper was published in. The author is on
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Removing subsidies? Are you aware that UK increased ren CFDs for latest AR rounds? Are you aware that offshore projects without CFDs are already facing problems? Germany still pays 18bn/y on EEG and the amount is projected to rise due
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Countries do have armies where ppl sacrifice their lives, Ukraine's war being a proof, so no, I can't imagine a Chernobyl situation being worse in this regard. Wth are you saying about Fukushima? It would not have been such a cata
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
No you can't. Hydro is already mostly tapped with few exceptions. Solar requires more materials per kwh even compared to nuclear. But even if it didn't - since hydro potential isn't sufficient - gas is required for firming. T
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
No it didn't replace 2/3 of coal. Coal demand dropped as consumption dropped and Germany became net importer down from exporting 60+TWh/y The claim of what Germany did for humanity was more beneficial is such a farce consider
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
In what forms were subsidies given then? Because per Bundestag there were no operational subsidies.
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
No, they don't compete for the same slice of the market, that's silly Nuclear is more flexible than coal and on par with some gas plants. BWR's are even faster. Your second link about french modulation proves that. Or you can
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It's not just restart. It's investing money to restart. The north area still has coal and gas plants so restarting nuclear still makes sense. That's how it'll help. Also. Why get less decarbonization by wasting money and
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
So a scenario where humans will not do anything to stop a fire? Sorry that's not realistic. Chernobyl's fire was stopped because of human intervention, otherwise it would have taken longer. And again - such thing can't happen
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Those are part of EDF financials. Again, EDF already did Great Carenage for over half of reactors. And it didn't have CFD's for that - only own budget. And it was despite stupid ARENH law that got replaced this year. Germany is ab
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
The fact coal generation went down is irrelevant. Coal got down because domestic consumption dropped and Germany switched from net exporting 60TWh/y to being either neutral or net importer in last year. Since the goal of energy transit
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
I stand corrected. VEBA was state owned at that time. On the other hand RWE was 50/50 private-municipality owned in the same period. Still, no CFDs were given to them. So it's not about state reducing subsidies. Nor was it about e
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
I'm not afraid of renewables. I encourage building them. I do also realize, that if sufficient nuclear isn't built, gas will be used for firming (or coal in case of China). That's literally what's happening in Germany. D
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
I'm complaining that Germany also plans gas expansion into _future_ instead of either refurbing some of existing units for cheap or build new nuclear. Germany doesn't need to wait for it to come online. It needs to keep building r
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It pretty much was compared to modern plants. What happened there can't physically happen in western gen2 plants and even more so in gen3 units. Chernobyl is de facto the worst thing that could have happened unless we start using some
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Sellafield problems are due to weapons testing era. Asse is an experimental facility without plans to extract the waste if experiment fails. Still, no public was or will be harmed since it's mostly LLW, 75% for medical and research sec
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
the next movement would be blocking LTE/5G during courses. No social media = dumb phone
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
bc you may want to have time in the build, but to some, this is just magic. They don't think about potential consequences of using such instruments
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It's an admission that the plant can operate for a long time "do realize that across such a lifespan essentially the entire nuclear plant except the pressure vessel and outer shell is replaced?" - so you are saying that EDF r
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
it wasn't fully state controlled enterprises in the west - state was a partial owner. For example PreussenElektra, when it built plants was a publicly traded company and during Grohnde state mostly divested from it. Plants not only rea
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Why only 40y for new nuclear? When min license is 60 for gen3 and many gen2 already got extensions to 80y. And where did you get the 100% 24/7 number? The min profitability of FLA3 doesnt assume that. And that's for an ultimately
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Germany is just a prime example. Germany was better off to not shut down existing plants and invest in ren+nuclear to retire leftover fossils. It's also fascinating to hear the "horrifyingly expensive" statement. Germany spen
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
nuclear is very flexible, especially with ALFC upgrades
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Ah yes, everyone is brainwashed. Sure. We see today how non brainwashed is Germany that not only is a bad polluter but plans gas expansion to firm renewables. Nuclear requires far less overcapacity and transmission. You can cycle maintenanc

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