Cool, now we just need to convince Americans 50 years ago of that and we might manage to save the planet yet.
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You're probably right, we're fucked. May as well go harpoon some right whales.
Fossil fuel and monopoly utility owners desperately trying to direct resources away from the thing killing their profits to something they know is ineffective with astroturfing campaign. Fox news watchers parroting what they're told.
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There's only one contender, buddy. This "if only you'd stop fighting and just direct 10x the resources at a non-solution" schtick is even stupider than the rest of the lies.
The nuclear industry is owned by the same people as big carbon. The only people parroting this garbage are the same people that have been pushing coal and climate denial.
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Now if only they can get the NIMBYs in Nevada to support yucca mountain so we have a safe place to store the waste.
"What do they do with these after we seal them?"
"I hear they dump 'em in an abandoned chalk mine and cover them with cement."
"I hear they're sending them to one of those southern states where the governor's a crook."
"Either way, I'm sleeping good tonight!"
Why is it on Nevada to deal with your shit (and the costs of cleanup when you fuck up like WIPP or the German repository)?
If it's a solved issue, then execute the solution where you make the mess.
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Will only happend if Las Vegas runs out of water and lose population. Then they'll want the related jobs, income, and tax revenue. Until LV dies, it'll never happen.
I don’t mind more nuclear if it’s done in a modern and safe fashion. The US has a tendency to build old fashioned water cooled reactors that output nuclear waste that we have to find a place for. And we do stupid things like building them on fault lines and flood zones.
Why not build a pebble reactor? Or molten salt?
The current gen nuclear reactors are the only ones that have a chance of being built with all the known drawbacks. And even if we started building them like crazy, it would still not be enough to meaningfully contribute to mitigating climate change. All the other designs, like Thorium or SMRs are just pure science fiction and at best decades away from being viable.
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If this magical reliable, cheap, abundant, fast to deploy molten salt handling technology existed, the people with it would be dominating the storage industry with carnot batteries on every abandoned (and active) coal plant as well as the solar industry with 2c/kWh CSP.
The reason not to build those things is we don't know how yet? Not well, for power production.
There is a clear path forward. The only place where nuclear fits in the puzzle is specific locations where wind and solar are non-viable.
They are funding modern reactor research/development. One example is x energy.
Well its not really a choice with climate change about to wreck most things.
Yeah cooling them with river water won't work in the summer pretty soon and since it takes almost 10 years to build it really isn't a reasonable choice if you see how many renewables you can rollout in that time with that money
Yeah, that's what most people fail to grok. This summer, 2023, will be the coolest summer for the rest of your life. In frightfully few years, weather catastrophes will be as commonplace as gas station stickups, and all of the 'modern conveniences' will be doubtful at best.
The internet will be frequently and increasingly unplugged, highways will buckle, flying will be only for oligarchs, hospitals will be amateur efforts, Hollywood will be in flames, pro baseball will be untenable, and wild hoards will roam what used to be the cities, searching for food.
In this mix, it's laughable to imagine there'll be full, stable, well-trained staffing at nuclear power plants.
Interesting that you included baseball on that list
The whole comment was me retyping something I'd texted to my oblivious Republican nephew a few days ago, and he's a baseball fan. :)
Damn, those are some fine looking swimming pools
They're heated (and cooled) swimming pools
Sign me the fuck up for nuclear, especially sodium reactors. I want it in my backyard, especially if it means I get a fucking excellent deal on a house. I hate the smoke every summer and the extreme weather and the lack of snow for our glaciers.
Some good news for once. All it took was the hottest year on record and a global plague that wiped out a bunch of the elderly anti-science crowd.
Maybe we can build a few more before we all fucking die
Cool nuclear power is in again.
Good! We need more nuclear now more than ever.
A tad too late. Those nuclear power plants won’t mean much by the time they are built
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