Re:The Montreal Protocol was a landmark environmental success
by astrodust on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:14PM
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The problem with nuclear plants is approval time, and that takes forever and a half because nobody wants one in their backyard. When one does get approved everyone dogpiles on it trying to get concessions.
Nuclear isn't done, it's just having a PR problem.
Re:The Montreal Protocol was a landmark environmental success
by epistasis on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @12:17PM
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That’s simply untrue. Look at VC Summer and Vogtle, both approved, both with willing and suppprtive neighbors. One abandoned at a cost of $7-$10B, the other at 2x budget with more cost overruns likely.
If we started planning a new nuclear reactor in the US today, by the time it completed, a wind farm with 3+ days of storage attached will be cheaper than that nuclear plant.
Nuclear's days are done. We could have avoided massive amounts of CO2 emissions if we had been able to build them in the 80s (which is a pig-headed and poorly innovating industry's fault just as much as anti-nukers), but we can't go back in time unfortunately.