• @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Yeah, the cost is the real downside to Nuclear. However, for every Nuclear plant running, that’s a lot of batteries it other energy storage that don’t have to be built today in order to have clean energy. Because even if we were utilizing nuclear like we should, we would still need to be building a shit ton of batteries to keep the cost of energy coming down.

    • Semi-Hemi-Demigod
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      01 year ago

      The cost of electricity dropping is bad news for nuclear power plants because they’ll be even less profitable when they’re finished. Especially since they take decades to construct, during which time renewables and storage become even cheaper.

      And we’ll still need a way to store power from renewables when they overproduce.

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      -41 year ago

      Don’t forget nuclear waste that is just building up forever with nothing to do with it.

      • Uranium3006
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        11 year ago

        It’s the only kind of waste that goes away on it’s own if you literally sit on it and do nothing

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        1 year ago

        Do you know how much nuclear waste has been produced in the whole world for the entire history of nuclear energy production?

        Around 500 000 tonnes.

        That’s 0.001% of the waste thrown into the atmosphere by fossil fuels EVERY YEAR.