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Surur t1_iuhhkur wrote

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It's very simple - nuclear energy has very long lead times (often a decade), is very expensive, and relies on a stable society for its entire existence, something which Ukraine and USA shows us is not guaranteed.

It's also centralised, vs many renewables which can be generated at home or at the community level.

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HoriOri t1_iuhjfoo wrote

Those are very good and well thought out reasons. However, it does mean that much of the world will be burning gas for baseload power till we can get some decent buffers so we can use renewables entirely.

I personally don't think we have the time left, we needed to throw everything we've got at this problem 40 years ago.

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