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German poll: Majority for return to nuclear energy
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10 km which direction? If it's buried 1km down, you can stick it directly below my home for all I care.
not sure who told you that nuclear reactors cost half a trillion dollars to build, or are you thinking they would be building 30+ reactors?
closed loop cooling of reactors is a thing. There's zero reason to ever have drinking water restrictions.
this doesn't make sense. Why would the price of electricity double to maintain the status quo? I thought you were paying for the reactors out of income taxes?
Long story short, there's plenty of valid reasons to argue against nuclear power. Use those reasons, not made up bullshit.
It’s just more FUD trying to keep away from it. We’re still a ways off of 100% renewables and nuclear can very much help fill in that gap without reliance on foreign oil or fossil fuels.
Nuclear can't be built fast enough to fill the gap. It's likely better long-term to invest in additional renewables + gas plants instead, until the gas can be phased out as well. It's still fossil for a bit, but since nuclear nearly always is over time and well beyond budget, it's likely to be a net greener option. Gas is pretty cheap and above all very flexible, making it more suitable for baseline power than nuclear.
Which is why they should never have been decommissioned in the first place.
Those plants were very old and already had their lifespan extended a couple times (for a lot of money). Ultimately they were decommissioned before the next end-of-life date, which perhaps was a bit early, but keeping them open indefinitely just wasn't feasible.
Consider the downtime if they had decommissioned with the idea of building a new plant in the future. The future would look much less uncertain when it comes to energy needs.
So we made a mistake, and to make up for it, we should make another one?
We made a mistake, and to make up for it, we should right the mistake. Unbelievable the way people's brains just switch off when it comes to nuclear power.