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[deleted] t1_j69be3t wrote

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erosram t1_j6eaa38 wrote

Renewables seems to have won out, because of the price, flexibility, and safety. All it needs now, is time, and more innovation. It seems like it will eventually take over all of our energy needs.

At least we won’t have to worry about storing nuclear waste.

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Fuckyourdatareddit t1_j6a69vv wrote

Orrrr less money and time could be spent overall and the wide variety of sources that can be built should be built and will cover baseload requirements.

When the other option is to spend a decade waiting for heavy manufacturing infrastructure to be expanded for nuclear components then still not produce or assemble enough parts by 2050 to replace the coal plants in America and have wasted 30 years waiting for nuclear instead of building fast cheap renewables, nuclear very quickly becomes a worthless choice

https://www.ceem.unsw.edu.au/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/MarkBaseloadFallacyANZSEE.pdf

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[deleted] t1_j6aj3fb wrote

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Fuckyourdatareddit t1_j6anfwr wrote

Speaking of scale and viability, let me know when there’s enough manufacturing for nuclear power components to replace all the plants being closed this decade from age 😊 then let me when when there’s enough for a net increase 😊

Because until then they’re still closing nuclear plants faster then they’re building them

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