Moldoteck

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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
PWRs are unsuitable for that
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
We've heard of Germany going antinuclear and being one of the worst polluters while planning to expand gas to firm renewables because storage is not a simple challenge. The only countries that really tried are France and Sweden and the
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
every $ spent on not building nuclear results in higher CO2 emissions due to gas firming. Germany plans gas expansion to firm renewables. * Antinuclear movement resulted in DK/DE having worse emissions vs France/Sweden even tod
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
So ABWR is fundamentally expensive? So is Hualong? "Every kw of nuclear production we create is resources we could have instead put into adding more than 1 kw of solar backed with batteries at this point. Moreover the other renewables
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
it's perfectly fair. The goal is to have decarbonized electricity when you need it, not only randomly. Countries solve this with gas, see DE
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Nuclear was safe even considering gen2 units which were not subject to all curent requirements. But the biggest impact is supply chain, not regulation. "Of course it is. Malicious actors can kill millions with the amount of nuclear was
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
IT IS REPLACING. If you had nuclear plants that worked fine (highest CF globally probably after US), some even not reaching 40y (when most are extended to 60-80y) and you retire them instead of retiring coal, it means coal replaced nuclear.
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Germany has coal and no nuclear? Each MW of closed nuclear could have erased that coal. As simple as that. You can come with mental gymnastics but it doesnt change the fact Germany still has coal.
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
No, it'll be stored in TerraDura just like in Onkalo or like Germany has biggest facility for toxic chemicals on the planet
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Big oil loves to dismantle nuclear like in Germany and later push for gas expansion to firm renewables like in Germany. Big oil hates when countries like France/Sweden decarbonize in record time
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
If ppl vote positive, it'll probably be built just like Sweden is advancing despite Vatenfall initially being against
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It's exactly this way now - Switzerland has a healthy mix
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
They don't have a huge cooling problem. It's a nonsense repeated again and again without understanding the details. In France it impacts 0.2% of annual production to save fish during a period of high overcapacity that France is ea
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
what a nonsense. Weapons are unrelated to PWR's due to parasitic isotopes. If you want wpn you build much cheaper enrichment facility just for that.
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
You do realize that existing swiss plants don't get CFD's right?
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
The impact is 0.2% of annual power in France in units without cooling towers during a period of overcapacity. The statement is pure inflamatory nonsense
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
not much at all
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
nuclear requires least amount of materials and hence imports per kwh. It in fact is one of the best option. "Nuclear will also boil over Swiss rivers and shallow lakes." - what an inflamatory nonsense. Plants without cooling tower
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
nobody gets a free pass but the amount of damage is incomparable. Most evacuation zones in Fukushima are lifted. Nobody died from radiation due to low dose. Chernobyl became equivalent of a protected national park where animals thrive http
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
So you are concerned about EDF having 50bn debt and France spending 120bn to build it's entire fleet but you are fine with Germany spending almost 400bn on EEG alone till now to have far worse emissions and still drive coal? This is yo
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Nuclear helped France decarbonize in 90's while Germany still has coal. EDF profits are closer to 10bn, the 3bn nr is nonsense. 50bn debt with EDF ebitda means it's a healthy debt. The amount is what Germany is subsidizing EEG+tr
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pretty much all
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
EDF debt is 50bn now. And it's debt/ebitda is healthier vs german eon/rwe. Germany is subsidizing transmission+eeg by 24bn/y. I.E. Germany could repay entire EDF debt in 2y... Needless to say in capitalism debt is ok if
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It's not like Germany is not subsidizing renewables and building gas plants in parallel to firm them... Entire EEG is already double the price of entire french nuclear fleet...
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It requires least amount of mining vs alternatives, where did you get this weird false narrative https://ourworldindata.org/low-carbon-technologies-need-far-... ?
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
For the storage, check Onkalo for example Enriched fuel can be gotten from Urenco/Orano or you can build Candu units otherwise. Over half of global uranium mining is already in situ (with several exceptions, Canada among them for good
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
France is largest net exporter in EU and made about 5.4bn revenue last year from this export. It plans to build datacenters to increase profits further
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Imo Norway will have it https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/assessment-of-pr...
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
lol you think power from Africa is strategically safer dependency? And no, nuclear will be miles cheaper considering infra cost of sending power from Africa
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Nuclear requires least amount of materials so you can stockpile uranium for a decade and be fine

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