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max-venum t1_iu6fnne wrote

Smart move. Get away from Russia in every way you can. Have nothing to do with them at all.

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Moonkai2k t1_iu6zsqi wrote

I don't know, I hear their RBMK reactors are impossible to fuck up. They even guarantee the highest radiation measurement you'll ever see is about 3.6 roentgen.

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Texcellence t1_iu788al wrote

Anybody who reads more than 3.6 roentgen near an RBMK nuclear reactor is clearly delusional and should be sent to the infirmary.

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Kanin_usagi t1_iu7dfxb wrote

It’s a reference to the HBO show Chernobyl guys. He’s being facetious

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JackedUpReadyToGo t1_iu7q8j7 wrote

Just in case you didn't have the Internet 3 years ago and missed out on everybody "hilariously" replying with "3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible" to fucking everything.

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Bowsers t1_iu98dji wrote

Like recently, with people drinking polonium tea ,before falling out of windows, onto bullets in the back of their heads?

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DrDeadCrash t1_iu75p2g wrote

But how could any country trust them, at this point?

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xt1nct t1_iu7lsys wrote

“Maybe if we like stopped testing the covid cases would stop going up?” - Trump

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Moonkai2k t1_iu9uwpg wrote

How exactly can you make literally everything about Trump?

You realize that type of obsession isn't healthy right?

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Shandothederpdo t1_iu800ck wrote

Furthermore you will not see Graphite on the ground BECAUSE THERE IS NO GRAPHITE.

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Speculawyer t1_iu7mmpd wrote

*if that is the highest amount your Geiger detector can measure.

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vshark29 t1_iu7oou1 wrote

I hear it’s the equivalent of a chest x-ray

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CSI_Tech_Dept t1_iu7qajq wrote

I hope so. Polish government chose King Mierdas (Jacek Sasin) to solve this. The guy is infamous for fucking up everything he touches.

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Fermented_Discharge t1_iu721x3 wrote

As if you had to tell them.

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Breakfast_on_Jupiter t1_iu872sd wrote

Well, it took Finland a lot of telling not to cozy up to Russia regarding nuclear power.

Finland. The nation ravaged, conquered and incorporated into the empire for almost a century, and losing sovereign territory during several wars thanks to Russia.

The deal was canceled in May '22. It took several history books and 67 days of war for the Finnish power company to finally come to the conclusion that it's a bad idea to invite Russia to be a part of Finland's energy infrastructure.

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Misiok t1_iu80lk4 wrote

If Poland wasn't so nepotistic and corrupt in the government, we'd already be having our own nuclear power plant, as was the plan years ago. But of course the money and investment disappeared.

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kakao_w_proszku t1_iu8146p wrote

It’s not due to corruption (although I would be surprised if there wasnt any) but post-Chernobyl paranoia and strong coal mining lobby

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DocNMarty t1_iu9nivo wrote

TBF, a strong lobbying scene generally is a red flag for corruption

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Augenglubscher t1_iu82j5n wrote

The Polish government has been in the US' pocket a long time, they'd rather fork over billions to the US than to create Polish jobs and develop nuclear reactors with the help of other European countries.

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lostparis t1_iu89105 wrote

It is a stupid move - it will take decades to produce power and be expensive - there are far better investments to make with quicker and higher returns.

Nuclear is not the solution people think it is because we don't have enough fuel for it to work on a scale large enough to make a real difference. There are also some environmental/security concerns too.

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bingobangobenis t1_iu8annk wrote

oh please. There's plenty of fuel for nuclear reactors. And you don't just have to use Uranium 235. Alternatives such as old fuel. Thorium. And so on.

There is no threat to the environment with modern reactors, especially gen IV with innovations such as pebble beds and more importantly passively safe reactors that don't even need a source of water. Not to mention the LFTR everyone jerks off.

nuclear is the only clean energy that can provide the energy foundation to a technological future with electric cars and industrial processes, especially in european countries that are far more dense population wise.

and of course they could open another fart gas or coal plant. But the obvious idea here is energy diversity. Maybe even developing a knowledge base of working with nuclear energy

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Hippos-in-Colombia t1_iu8c2ue wrote

Yes sure but still this will probably be finished in about 15-20 years?

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Open_University_7941 t1_iu8in63 wrote

A large part of why it takes long is A: faux environmentalists B: we just dont do it enough to be really fast at it. C: its the most highly regulated form lf electricity, but this also makes it the safest.

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lostparis t1_iu8c5xi wrote

> Thorium.

Are we actually generating any power with this yet?

It is estimated that there is enough Uranium fuel for an additional 200-400 NPPs This is not really going to make a huge difference. In the time it takes to build a NPP we would do better to be investing in stored power. There are many ideas here and building a variety of them at a small but usable scale would allow us to find which ones are effective and start building some full scale implementations.

Building NPPs will not bring us a fast solution, will be expensive, and distracts us from the actual issues.

There may be some niche places where it works but these are few and far between.

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