• Chewy
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    6 days ago

    People arguing against nuclear power for it’s cost and unclear timeline usually don’t argue for coal, oil and gas.
    Wind and solar are cheaper, continue to get cheaper and can be built within years, not decades.

    Also, renewables are a proven technology while proposals for new nuclear reactor tech have usually never been deployed successfully (as in running continuously and actually contributing to the grid).

    • @[email protected]
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      06 days ago

      Oh yeah absolutely.

      But every argument against nuclear applies to the crude trio too, and I have heard people saying to specifically keep the status quo over nuclear power…

      • Chewy
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        26 days ago

        Oh I agree. Keeping the status quo is a terrible idea and will get increasingly more expensive (as in increased likelihood for extreme weather events which are bad for health, food, infrastructur, …).