Moldoteck

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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
you subcontractit instead of building yourself. It's not like Switzerland is building all it's trains
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
nimby to have solar/wind in alps is even higher vs nimby against nuclear. With nuclear you can at least throw another unit in Aarau
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Norway already wants to build nuclear. Austria still has worse emissions vs France/Sweden despite much more hydro...
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Fascinating how ppl mention pro nuclear propaganda when we already know the facts. France and Sweden have among the lowest emissions in EU and got them in 90's by building both ren and nuclear. Germany built only ren, DK built only ren
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Ironically, France and Sweden got some of the fastest decarbonizations on the planet when nuclear plans got decided.
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
water to steam is a wonderful invention
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
SMR's are just a hype machine - economics are worse than LMR's. Look at Canadian BWRX for example...
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
It was mostly for units without cooling towers. Nowadays inland units have them included
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Italy has much less hydro vs Spain, no access to cheap gas and no cheap nuclear. Building nuclear in parallel with ren is a must. Cooling is never a problem. You design the plants properly, see Palo Verde. But for Italy cooling towers are e
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Most of UK's bills are up due to gas. Nuclear is a drop in a pond there
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
not regulations - supply chain. Many french reactors are modernized even with core catchers. Power is still cheap. Repository isn't a problem either. Switzerland needs one anyway and Terradura will slowly advance just like Onkalo
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
The cost is included why ppl keep repeating this nonsense https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/geschaefts-nachhaltigkeitsberichte...
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
it was mostly because PWR's are cheaper. But Thorium is advancing https://world-nuclear-news.org/articles/first-criticality-fo... You don't need only MW but MW at requested time
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Didn't know Germany is a developing country https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10640-025-01002-z
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
5) gas dependency for firming
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
still no. Highest is from coal. Entire chernobyl deaths are expected to be about 4k per old UN estimations or much less per recent UNSCEAR reports. That's for decades span. And Chernobyl was a design that the west wouldn't even al
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
you can get weapons for much cheaper without power plants
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
risks 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
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
it's very hard to create plutonium for weapons this way due to parasitic isotopes. Much easier to have distributed enrichment or uranium.
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
nuclear requires least amount of mining and materials per kwh. France already reoriented ore buying from other sources and the price is still dirt cheap. Canada has literally several stalled mines because market prices are too low
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
it'll be just perfect in that period considering you also need firm power on top of vre and hydro is tapped
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
the argument is always repeated and always false. Unless you like gas firming, nuclear must be expanded. Nuclear has lowest enviromental impact per UNECE
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Ukraine still has power due to it's npp because most of ren infra got destroyed or captured because it was in the south. The plan for managing waste in Switzerland is terradura, similar to Onkalo in Finland, similar to what Germany doe
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
decomission cost and waste management costs are included and cheap. You should avoid informing yourself from some politically motivated websites and rely on real financial data like https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/gescha
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
it'll be built by others anyway
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
you can use others and get ALFC from framatome
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
France wants to build data centers so that EDF can make more profit instead of selling for cheap
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
But ren also require gas firming expansion(see germany). And Germany spends in ren subsidies about equivalent of 1 failed french nuclear project, each year... to have far worse emissions
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
I mean the situation was clear when Germany dropped nuclear before coal and gas... I can understand simping for gas, but having coal on the grid and dismantling nuclear in parallel is peak insanity
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by Moldoteck 4mo ago
Gen2 units are expensive, but how do you explain ABWR as a FOAK costed far less than N-OAK gen 2 units? It's not about safety but features and wishes to have. French reactors were cheap even at P4 level but the demand hasn't incre

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